Nationality American Name Ross Gay | Genre Poetry Role Poet | |
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Born August 1, 1974 (age 49)
Youngstown, Ohio ( 1974-08-01 ) Occupation Professor, Founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard Alma mater Lafayette College;
Sarah Lawrence College;
Temple University Notable works Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2014) Notable awards 2015 National Book Award Finalist, Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow Education Lafayette College, Temple University, Sarah Lawrence College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Bringing the Shovel Down, Against which, Lace and Pyrite | ||
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Ross Gay is an American poet and professor.
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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. He received his B.A. from Lafayette College, his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, 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.
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). 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.
His collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015) was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry.