Tanner Menard is an internationally known hybrid-poet-composer, scholar, yogi, and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A Louisiana Creole of Atakapa-Ishak descent, his work integrates visionary poetics, Indigenous epistemologies, and consciousness studies—engaging Anzaldúa's borderlands consciousness and nepantla as frameworks resonant with his own Gulf South lineage. His research develops the concept of numalia—numinous qualia encoded in epic and contemporary visionary literature—and bridges literary analysis with contemplative practice and anomalous experience. Engaging the Superhumanities, relational citation, Indigenous futurity, and contemplative philosophy, Menard examines the poet as a ceremonial and perceptual practitioner. He is the author of a book and a chapbook and has released fourteen albums of experimental music.