Ross Gay

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Ross Gay
Ross Gay at Split This Rock 2016
Ross Gay at Split This Rock 2016
Born (1974-08-01) August 1, 1974 (age 51)
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationProfessor, founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLafayette College,
Sarah Lawrence College,
Temple University
GenrePoetry
Notable worksAgainst Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2014)
Notable awards2016 Kingsley Tufts Award, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 2015 National Book Award Finalist, 2015 Radcliffe Fellow, 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Cave Canem Fellow
Website
rossgay.net

Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and professor of English at Indiana University who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.

Life

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Ross Gay was born on August 1, 1974, 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.

He is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin'. He is also 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, Pennsylvania, and Montclair State University in New Jersey. He now teaches at Indiana University Bloomington and the low-residency MFA in poetry program at Drew University.[3][4]

His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review; Harvard Review; Columbia: A Journal of Poetry; Art, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry; and Atlanta Review. His poetry has also appeared in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).[5] His essays have appeared in The Paris Review.

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

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Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
2015 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude National Book Award Poetry Shortlisted [8]
National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry Won [9]
2016 The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Won [10]
NAACP Image Awards Poetry Nominated [11]
Ohioana Book Award Poetry Shortlisted
2020 The Book of Delights Indiana Authors Award Nonfiction Won [12]
2021 Be Holding: A Poem Ohioana Book Award Poetry Shortlisted
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award — Won [13]
2022 Indiana Authors Award Poetry Won [14]
2023 Inciting Joy: Essays Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Memoir/Biography Won [15]
Ohioana Book Award Nonfiction Won
2024 The Book of (More) Delights: Essays Ohioana Book Award Nonfiction Shortlisted

Works

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In anthology

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Appearances on reality television shows

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See also

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References

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