Ross Gay
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Ross Gay at Split This Rock 2016
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Born | Youngstown, Ohio |
August 1, 1974
Occupation | Professor, Founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Lafayette College; Sarah Lawrence College; Temple University |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable works | Against Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2014) |
Notable awards | 2016 Kingsley Tufts Award, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 2015 National Book Award Finalist, 2015 Radcliffe Fellow, 2013 Guggenheim Fellow |
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Ross Gay is an American poet and professor.
Life
Ross Gay was born August 1, 1974 to a Black father and white mother in Youngstown, Ohio, but he grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania.[1] He received his B.A. from Lafayette College, his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College,[2] and his Ph.D. in American Literature from Temple University, and is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin', in addition to being an editor with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project.
He has taught poetry, art and literature at Lafayette College in Easton, PA and Montclair State University in New Jersey. He now teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and the low-residency MFA in poetry program at Drew University.[3][4]
His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and Atlanta Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).[5] His honors include being a Cave Canem Workshop fellow and a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Tuition Scholar, and he received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts.[6][7]
Awards and honors
- 2015 National Book Award for Poetry, finalst for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude[citation needed]
- 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry), winner for Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude.[8]
- 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, winner for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude[citation needed]
Works
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References
- ↑ The Southeast Review > Antidote to Distraction: An Interview with Ross Gay
- ↑ Lafayette College > Alumni News > Ross Gay '96 Returns to Help Students
- ↑ Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration'
- ↑ Indiana University - Bloomington > Department of English Faculty > Ross Gay
- ↑ Persea Books Website > “From the Fishouse’’ Book Page
- ↑ Interview: The Cortland Review > Issue 41, November 2008 > A Conversation with Ross Gay by Joanna Penn Cooper
- ↑ Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration'
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ross Gay. |
- Essay: Some Thoughts on Mercy
- Audio Interview: NHPR > Poet Ross Gay Interviewed by Liz Bulkley > Friday, February 23, 2007
- Audio Reading: Ross Gay Reads for From the Fishouse
- Interview: The Cortland Review > Issue 41, November 2008 > A Conversation with Ross Gay by Joanna Penn Cooper
- Author Page: CavanKerry Press > Author Ross Gay
- Poem: The American Poetry Review > Vol. 35, No. 5 > Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street by Ross Gay
- Ploughshares > Authors > Ross Gay
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- Living people
- American male poets
- Poets from Pennsylvania
- Poets from Indiana
- American academics
- Lafayette College alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- Temple University alumni
- Writers from Youngstown, Ohio
- Writers from Bloomington, Indiana
- People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- 1974 births