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ROSS GAY: A WAY WH WORDS
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Ross Gay is the thor of three books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.
ROSS GAY
Ross Gay - Ross Gay is the thor of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award. * ross gay bloomington *
In 2015, IU Bloomgton Associate Profsor Ross Gay’s latt book of poetry, Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, was shortlisted for the Natnal Book Award. Though he didn’t w that prize, a few months later Gay received word that he’d won one of the most prtig aclas a poet n receive: the Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. As the wner, Gay received a $100, 000 prize that’s meant to make easier for him to ntue pursug excellence poetry.
For Gay — a low-key fellow who liv Bloomgton and has a wi variety of passns, cludg garng and basketball — that meant payg down stunt-loan bt. Gay says he was “very exced” to w the award, addg: “It’s nice to image that more people might be readg the work, and I might be able to pay off my stunt loans.
AN EVENG WH ROSS GAY
A native of Youngstown, Oh, Gay lived Philalphia durg his 20s and early 30s, prr to his arrival Bloomgton.
Gay says his time at IU has, at least directly, affected the way he wr poetry. Ross Gay was born on Augt 1, 1974, Youngstown, Oh.
Gay is the thor of four llectns of poetry: Be Holdg (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2020); Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award; Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011); and Agast Which (Cavankerry Prs, 2006). Gay is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball’, and an edor of the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs. Gay’s honors clu fellowships om Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundatn.