
Gabrielle Bates is a writer and visual artist originally from Birmingham, Alabama. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2020. He is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at PLU.

He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University. His work has been included in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation, Language for a New Century, and The Best American Poetry 20.īarot is the poetry editor of New England Review. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, and The Threepenny Review. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Morton Prize Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Rick Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he wrote a weekly column for the Paris Review called "Poetry RX." In 2014, Kaveh founded Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. The recipient of honors including multiple Pushcart Prizes, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and the Levis Reading Prize, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. In 2020 Kaveh was named Poetry Editor of The Nation.


In 2022, Penguin Classics will publish a new anthology edited by Kaveh: The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine He is also the author of the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, published in 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. His debut, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is out now with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK. His second full-length volume of poetry, Pilgrim Bell, will be published by Graywolf in August 2021. Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.
