About

Gina Tomaine is a Philadelphia-based writer and editor, and author of The Philly Tarot Deck guidebook. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Globe, NPR’s WHYY, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Magazine‘s The Cut, VICE, Dazed, Cosmopolitan, Rose Books, and Longreads, among others. She has been nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) National Magazine Award and a City and Regional Magazine (CRMA) Award. She served as Senior Managing Editor of the Oncology Learning Network, Deputy Editor of Philadelphia magazine, and Associate Deputy Editor of Rodale’s Organic Life magazine. She earned her MFA from Emerson College, has been admitted for writing programs at Tin House/McCormack Writing Center, and has taught at St. Joseph’s University and Rosemont College. Her literary work has been longlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest, shortlisted for the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation residency, and a semifinalist for the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize.


Contact: gina.tomaine@gmail.com