Born and raised in North Carolina, her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South, among other subjects. Tangie earned a Bachelors in Political Science from Spelman College and an MFA in Writing (Poetry) from Sarah Lawrence College.

Her work has been featured in Poetry Wales, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, West Trade Review, Berlin Lit, Exposition Review, and more.

A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has also earned Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nominations and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She was a 2024-2025 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at The Poetry Project.

Tangie lives in Brooklyn with a growing collection of 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s funk/r&b/soul memorabilia.