About Tamara Warren
Tamara Warren's grandfather says that the more difficult choice is usually the right one. Pursuing a career as a writer isn't a clear-cut path, but for Tamara it's been the best choice she's made, encountering all kinds of adventures along the way.
Tamara Warren is a New York based writer, journalist, and cultural critic. Her articles have appeared in over 75 publications covering culture, cars, music, style, the arts, and social issues. She has most recently written for Rolling Stone, Vibe, Shop Etc., Northwest Airlines World Traveler, Time Out New York, the Detroit Free Press, Forbes Autos, BlackBook, Clear, King, Giant, Celebrity Car, AutoWeek, Rides, the Ave, Anthem, and Edmunds.com. Tamara pens regular car columns in Dub, Automotive Rhythms, and Houston Style magazines.
The Detroit native wrote her first article for a national publication when she was 19, landing an associate editor title at Troika Magazine as an intern. Her curiosities took her to Central Europe, Germany, and the Netherlands where she began extensive research about her grandfather's life as an Auschwitz survivor for the honor's thesis she completed as a student at James Madison College at Michigan State University.
While working as a reporter for the State News, MSU's daily newspaper, she met a young publisher starting Venus, a fledgling woman's music magazine, and she joined forces to cultivate the publication's philosophy. Further developing her craft, she was certified as a writing consultant in MSU's Writing Center. She graduated with a BA in Social Relations with a concentration in Jewish studies in 1998. Even in early in her career Tamara understood that to be a relevant writer, it was critical for her to draw from multiple resources to reach a broad audience and to cultivate her voice.
Tamara spent her early 20s producing and scripting a film and book about her grandfather, and writing about Detroit and music for European and American music magazines. Living downtown Detroit, she was introduced to several groundbreaking electronic music producers at indie record labels who brought her onboard to oversee artist development. From this insider's vantage point, Tamara developed a reputation in her subsequent journalistic coverage for picking out rising talents before they hit the big time. In 2001, she started to cover emerging artists for the Detroit Free Press on a regular basis.
From her work in Detroit and in the music business, Tamara developed an interest in the industry that fueled her environment. She pursued an internship at AutoWeek Magazine to further her understanding of cars -a touchstone of her community and in her family. Three generations on her father's side had toiled in the car industry. While working at AutoWeek, she continued to be active in the Detroit art community, facilitating programs with inner city youth that combined writing, urban art, and dance through a federally funded grant from the Empowerment Zone in Detroit Public Schools.
In 2003, Tamara moved to New York City where she focused her work on media outlets. Since her move, she has at least 15 articles on the newsstand at any given time. Tamara is an active member of the automotive press corps, covering product, motor sports, design and marketing that play out in her car reviews for buff books and general interest publications. With a decade of music journalism under her belt, she writes about jazz, rn'b, soul, hip hop, rock, electronic, blues, and world music. She also writes about pop culture, art and design - which she avidly follows. She has profiled some of the most provocative cultural figures of the era including Terry Bradshaw, Yoko Ono, Missy Elliott, Gary Sheffield, the Funk Brothers, Busta Rhymes, and Anita Baker. She is a member of the Author's Guild, the International Motor Press Association, and the Motor Press Guild.
Tamara has contributed several introductory essays to books about Detroit including Drive Thru about the Carharrt Corporation and the Japanese political book No War about antiwar movements in the U.S.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York. When she's not writing and traveling, she studies the Katherine Dunham dance technique with Ned Williams.
The eyes and faces all turned themselves toward me and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. - Sylvia Plath, the Bell Jar.
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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