Tanya Marquardt (born November 1, 1979) is a memoirist, performer, and writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia and Brooklyn, New York.
Her plays and performances have toured throughout the US and Canada, her essays have been published in Medium, Huffpost UK, Plentitude Magazine, SpiderWeb Performance, and Dance Central and her play Transmission was published in the Canadian Theatre Review.
Marquardt's first book Stray: Memoir of a Runaway was published by Little A in September 2018 and named a 2018 Best Queer History and Bio Pic by LGBTQ magazine The Advocate, who described Marquardt as "a compelling voice…[able to] embrace her own vulnerabilities and heal the wounds of the past as she forges ahead into adulthood.”