Ross Gay

Ross Gay

Ross Gay is an American poet whose poems have been published in several magazines and journals.

Life and Work

Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Atlanta Review, among other journals. He is a Cave Canem fellow and has been a Bread Loaf Tuition Scholar. In addition to holding a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University, he is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man and a painter.

Ross taught poetry at Montclair State University in New Jersey until May 2007. He now teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and at New England College’s Low-Residency MFA program. His book of poems, Against Which, was published in 2006.

elected Works

* Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow (2005)


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