About Me

Tazi Rodrigues (she/her) is a writer and biologist who studies movement and water in both disciplines. A settler from Treaty 1 territory, she lives in Ottawa on the unceded land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. 

 

Since completing her master's thesis on lake trout foraging behaviour in 2023, Tazi has continued to focus on salmonid movement ecology through acoustic telemetry studies.​ Her background includes field work, data analysis, and science communication. She is particularly interested in behaviour and/in relation to trophic ecology. ​

 

Tazi won the 2024 Diana Brebner Prize for her poem on looking for bees and her collection-in-progress, Community Association, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets' 2026 Pamela Paige Porter Poetry Prize. She placed second in the 2023 Kloppenburg Hybrid Grain Contest for her essay on learning Portuguese and listening to fish, and her essays have been finalists for the 2024 National Magazine Awards in the One-of-a-Kind Storytelling Category and the 2025 EVENT Magazine Non-Fiction Contest. Her lighthouse-island chapbook, I Followed the Coasts, was published by JackPine Press in 2021. Other writing has appeared in filling Station, CV2, and The Malahat Review. She is currently writing about ecological sound, caring for the worms and foster cats who live with her, and looking for good places to swim.