Ross Gay

Ross Gay is an American poet and professor.

Life
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.

Ross Gay was born August 1, 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up outside of Philadelphia. He received his B.A. from Lafayette College, his M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and his Ph.D. in American Literature from Temple University, and is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man and a painter. 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.

Publications

 * Against Which. CavanKerry Press, 2006.
 * Bringing the Shovel Down. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.