Often employing an Afrofuturist framework, Tanna uses comics and drawing as a way to map her relationship to the Black Diaspora, and to interrogate the utility of Black presence (or absence) in historical and mythical spaces. She is a 2022 MacDowell Fellow and is currently illustrating the Afrofuturist graphic novel, Black Kube, co-created with Ytasha Womack (Abrams 2024). Her work has been featured in the Eisner nominated LAAB Magazine, Believer Magazine, and The Nib.
She is represented by Anjali Singh, Ayesha Pande Literary.