Ross Gay Explained
Ross Gay |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1974 |
Birth Place: | Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
Occupation: | Professor, founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Lafayette College, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University |
Genre: | Poetry |
Notableworks: | Against Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2014) |
Awards: | 2016 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 |
Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and professor 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
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 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
Works
- Book: Against Which. October 2006. CavanKerry Press. 978-1-933880-00-6.
- Book: Bringing the Shovel Down. 23 January 2011. University of Pittsburgh Press. 978-0-8229-9119-9.
- With Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Book: Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. 2014. Organic Weapon Arts. 978-0-9827106-7-8.
- Book: River. 1 December 2014. Monster House Press.
- Book: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. 16 January 2015. University of Pittsburgh Press. 978-0822963318.
- Book: The Book of Delights: Essays. 12 February 2019. Algonquin Books. 978-1616207922.
- Book: Be Holding. 8 September 2020. University of Pittsburgh Press. 978-0822966234.
- Book: Inciting Joy: Essays. 25 October 2022. Algonquin Books. 978-1643753041.
- Book: The Book of (More) Delights: Essays . 19 September 2023 . Algonquin Books . 978-1643753096.
In anthology
- Book: Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey. 2018. University of Georgia Press. 978-0820353159.
Appearances on reality television shows
- A Dating Story, Episode 110: Jason, Brooke and Ross
Notes and References
- Web site: The Southeast Review > Antidote to Distraction: An Interview with Ross Gay . 2013-07-17 . 2020-01-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200109153151/https://www.southeastreview.org/2008/06/ross-gay.html . live .
- Web site: Lafayette College > Alumni News > Ross Gay '96 Returns to Help Students . 2009-10-15 . 2006-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060902025247/http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/98/ . live .
- Web site: Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration' . October 15, 2009 . April 22, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422080439/http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/9173.html . live .
- Web site: Indiana University - Bloomington > Department of English Faculty > Ross Gay . 2009-10-15 . 2009-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090614105830/http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Ross-Gay.html . live .
- Web site: Persea Books Website > "From the Fishouse" Book Page . 2009-10-15 . 2009-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090918175845/http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=47 . live .
- Web site: Interview: The Cortland Review > Issue 41, November 2008 > A Conversation with Ross Gay by Joanna Penn Cooper . 2009-10-15 . 2010-01-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100106015121/http://cortlandreview.com/issue/41/gay_i.html . live .
- Web site: Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration' . October 15, 2009 . April 22, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422080439/http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/9173.html . live .
- Web site: 2015 National Book Awards. www.nationalbook.org. 8 July 2018. 24 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181024063736/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2015. live.
- Web site: 'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle's Fiction Award . . Alexandra Alter . March 17, 2016 . March 18, 2016 . March 18, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160318014723/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/business/the-sellout-wins-national-book-critics-circles-fiction-award.html . live .
- Web site: Previous Winners & Finalists — Tufts Poetry Awards. Tufts Poetry Awards. 8 July 2018. 12 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170612121354/https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/winners-finalists/previous-winners-finalists/#2016. live.
- Web site: 2022 Awards . 2023-11-01 . Indiana Authors Awards . en-US . 2023-11-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231101142524/https://www.indianaauthorsawards.org/2022-awards/ . live .