Tammy Armstrong grew up in the border town of St. Stephen New Brunswick, Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, earning an Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In 2003, she changed coasts and moved to Halifax where she taught English as a Second Language. Today, she lives in Fredericton New Brunswick where she writes and teaches literacy to adults with physical disabilities. Her poetry and short stories appear frequently in Canadian, American and International literary magazines including: Arc, The Fiddlehead, The Saltzburg Review and New American Writing as well as many anthologies.
Her first novel, Translations:Aistreann, won the David Adams Richards Prize and was recently adapted into an audiobook for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Her first collection of poetry, Bogman's Music, won the Alfred G Bailey Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. She has also published, Unravel, a collection of poetry and most recently, Take Us Quietly, which an excerpt from was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2005. Her poetry has also been featured on CBC radio and performed at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, Canada for International Women's Day.