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'''Gabrielle Bates''' is a writer and visual artist from ], and is known for her poetry comics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art in Conversation: Gabrielle Bates (ep. 1) |url=https://www.fieldsmagazine.com/fields/2018/9/29/poetry-gabrielle-bates |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Fields Magazine |date=September 29, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Her debut poetry collection ''Judas Goat'' (], 2023) was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award. <ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Washington State Book Award Winners & Finalists, Adult Categories |url=https://wcls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/75828291/2614865359 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Whatcom County Library System |language=en-US}}</ref> The book has been praised for its depiction of "encounters with nonhuman animals reveal the deception, purchase, and stakes of human behavior."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ok |first=Cindy Juyoung |title=Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/books/reviews/159392/judas-goat |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> Bates currently lives in ]. '''Gabrielle Bates''' is a writer and visual artist from ], and is known for her poetry comics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art in Conversation: Gabrielle Bates (ep. 1) |url=https://www.fieldsmagazine.com/fields/2018/9/29/poetry-gabrielle-bates |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Fields Magazine |date=September 29, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Her debut poetry collection ''Judas Goat'' (], 2023) was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Washington State Book Award Winners & Finalists, Adult Categories |url=https://wcls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/75828291/2614865359 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Whatcom County Library System |language=en-US}}</ref> The book has been praised for its depiction of "encounters with nonhuman animals reveal the deception, purchase, and stakes of human behavior."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ok |first=Cindy Juyoung |title=Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/books/reviews/159392/judas-goat |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> Bates currently lives in ].


==Life and education== ==Life and education==
Gabrielle Bates Stahlman is a writer, majorly working in poetry, and visual artist from Birmingham, Alabama. She is an English (creative writing) graduate from ] where she was awarded an undergraduate degree in 2013. Bates later studied poetry at the ], where she was awarded an MFA in 2016.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=English alumna publishes second poem in The New Yorker |url=https://cla.auburn.edu/news/articles/english-alumna-publishes-second-poem-in-the-new-yorker/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Auburn University |date=May 26, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> At Auburn, she was the managing editor of the undergraduate-run literary magazine ''The Circle'', and worked as a lead consultant with the Miller Writing Center for three years. As a student at the University, she was part of the Student Writing Council, and ]-inspired Live Poets Society.<ref name=":3" /> Gabrielle Bates was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Jay Aquinas |title=A Conversation with Gabrielle Bates |url=https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-four/gabrielle-bates/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Adroit Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> She is a writer, majorly working in poetry, and visual artist, with an English (creative writing) degree from ]. She graduated there in 2013, and later studied poetry at the ], where she was awarded an MFA in 2016. At Auburn, she was the managing editor of the undergraduate-run literary magazine ''The Circle'', and worked as a lead consultant with the Miller Writing Center for three years. As a student at the University, she was part of the Student Writing Council, and ]-inspired Live Poets Society.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=English alumna publishes second poem in The New Yorker |url=https://cla.auburn.edu/news/articles/english-alumna-publishes-second-poem-in-the-new-yorker/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Auburn University |date=May 26, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
Bates is now settled in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium as their social media manager,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vansynghel |first=Margo |title=Seattle’s Open Books finds new home in Pioneer Square |url=https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2022/03/seattles-open-books-finds-new-home-pioneer-square |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Cascade PBS |date=March 31, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mohammed |first=Syma |title=A look inside Seattle’s flourishing poetry scene |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/a-look-inside-seattles-flourishing-poetry-scene/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Seattle Times |date=July 26, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Occasionally, she teaches through Hugo House, for the Tin House Writers' Workshops and for the University of Washington Study Abroad Rome Program. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Gabrielle Bates |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gabrielle-bates |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> Her work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Ploughshares'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''The New Yorker'',<ref name=":3" /> ''Kenyon Review'', ''The Rumpus'', and elsewhere.<ref name=”:0”>{{Cite web |title=Publications & awards |url=https://www.gabriellebat.es/publications |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Gabrielle Bates |language=en-US}}</ref> Bates is now settled in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium as their social media manager,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vansynghel |first=Margo |title=Seattle’s Open Books finds new home in Pioneer Square |url=https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2022/03/seattles-open-books-finds-new-home-pioneer-square |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Cascade PBS |date=March 31, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mohammed |first=Syma |title=A look inside Seattle’s flourishing poetry scene |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/a-look-inside-seattles-flourishing-poetry-scene/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Seattle Times |date=July 26, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Occasionally, she teaches through Hugo House, for the Tin House Writers' Workshops and for the University of Washington Study Abroad Rome Program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gabrielle Bates |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gabrielle-bates |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> Her work has appeared in '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'',<ref name=":3" /> '']'', '']'', and elsewhere.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Publications & awards |url=https://www.gabriellebat.es/publications |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Gabrielle Bates |language=en-US}}</ref> She has received awards from the ], and the Princeton Poetry Festival.<ref name=":3" /> In 2019, Bates was awarded an ] Gregory Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=LaBerge |first=Peter |title=Announcing The Adroit Journal’s 2019 Djanikian Scholars! |url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/03/19/announcing-2019-djanikian-scholars/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Adroit Journal |date=March 19, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> and in 2022, she was a finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly--dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows-301631372.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=PR Newswire |date=September 22, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=“:1”>{{Cite web |title=Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158671/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |date=September 22, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>


Her debut ''Judas Goat'', published by Tin House in 2023, garnered praise for "the poems' unflinching depictions of violence against humans as well as raw portrayals of animals being wounded and killed by humans."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waldman |first=D.S. |title=A Worn Violence: On Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat |url=https://therumpus.net/2023/03/08/a-worn-violence-on-gabrielle-bates-judas-goat/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Rumpus |date=March 8, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> In the ] book review 'The Shortlist', ] notes ''Judas Goat'''s relationship with fairy tales,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burt |first=Stephanie |title=The Shortlist: From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/new-poetry-collections.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The New York Times |date=March 7, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and Bates sold out of copies of the collection at the Brooklyn Poets booth on "the first day of ".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vansynghel |first=Margo |title=How the AWP writers conference in Seattle generated an estimated $15M |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/how-the-awp-writers-conference-in-seattle-generated-an-estimated-15-million/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Seattle Times |date=March 17, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> The debut was later included in Electric Lit’s “Best Poetry Collections of 2023”,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023 |url=https://electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-poetry-collections-of-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Electric Literature |date=November 28, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Book Riot's "12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pan |first=Connie |title=12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023 |url=https://bookriot.com/best-poetry-collections-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Book Riot |date=December 22, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and in NPR's "Books We Love: Best Books of 2023".<ref>{{Cite web |title= Books We Love |url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2023&book=136 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=NPR |language=en-US}}</ref> BuzzFeed, for their list of "13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry", wrote that "Bates's debut collection wrestles with motherhood and memory and the unfixed boundaries of what makes a place — or a person — feel like home."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sackton |first=Laura |title=13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurasackton/new-poetry-recommendations |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=BuzzFeed |date=April 1, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> It was the "Most-Anticipated Book of Winter" from ].<ref>{{Cite web |title="A stunner... haunted... profound" |url=https://digital.cla.auburn.edu/perspectives-fall-2023/a-stunner-haunted-profound/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Auburn University College of Liberal Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2019, she was awarded an ] Gregory Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=LaBerge |first=Peter |title=Announcing The Adroit Journal’s 2019 Djanikian Scholars! |url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/03/19/announcing-2019-djanikian-scholars/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Adroit Journal |date=March 19, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> and in 2022, she was a finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly--dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows-301631372.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=PR Newswire |date=September 22, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=“:1”>{{Cite web |title=Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158671/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |date=September 22, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>


Her debut ''Judas Goat'', published by Tin House in 2023, garnered praise for "the poems' unflinching depictions of violence against humans as well as raw portrayals of animals being wounded and killed by humans."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waldman |first=D.S. |title=A Worn Violence: On Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat |url=https://therumpus.net/2023/03/08/a-worn-violence-on-gabrielle-bates-judas-goat/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Rumpus |date=March 8, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> In the ] book review 'The Shortlist', ] notes ''Judas Goat'''s relationship with fairy tales,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burt |first=Stephanie |title=The Shortlist: From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/new-poetry-collections.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The New York Times |date=March 7, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and Bates sold out of copies of the collection at the Brooklyn Poets booth on "the first day of ".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vansynghel |first=Margo |title=How the AWP writers conference in Seattle generated an estimated $15M |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/how-the-awp-writers-conference-in-seattle-generated-an-estimated-15-million/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Seattle Times |date=March 17, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> The debut was later included in Electric Lit’s “Best Poetry Collections of 2023”,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023 |url=https://electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-poetry-collections-of-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Electric Literature |date=November 28, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Book Riot's "12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pan |first=Connie |title=12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023 |url=https://bookriot.com/best-poetry-collections-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Book Riot |date=December 22, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and in NPR's "Books We Love: Best Books of 2023".<ref>{{Cite web |title= Books We Love |url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2023&book=136 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=NPR |language=en-US}}</ref> Bates's "stunning",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Michelle R. |title=NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #7 |url=https://medium.com/@MichelleReneeSmith/napowrimo-poetry-prompt-7-344f700e1e86 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Medium |date=April 8, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> "gut-punching"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pan |first=Connie |title=Reflecting on Winter's Poetry |url=https://bookriot.com/winter-poetry-2022-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Book Riot |date=March 20, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> opener to ''Judas Goat'', the poem titled 'The Dog', which first appeared in ''The Offing'' in 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bates |first=Gabrielle |title=The Dog |url=https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/the-dog/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Offing |date=September 4, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> appeared on ''Poetry Daily'' over three years later.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bates |first=Gabrielle |title=The Dog |url=https://poems.com/poem/the-dog/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Daily |date=January 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> It received considerable focus, and was mentioned in the ''Northwest Review'' and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staples |first=Natalie |title=A Single Question Interview with Gabrielle Bates |url=https://nwreview.org/notes/natalie-staples/a-single-question-interview-with-gabrielle-bates/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Northwest Review |date=May 27, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sakelaris |first=Isabelle |title=The linguistic imageries of Gabrielle Bates |url=https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2023/5/23/gabrielle-bates-interview-judas-goat-tin-house |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Interlocutor |date=May 23, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gabrielle Bates |url=https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/gabrielle-bates |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Brooklyn Poets |language=en-US}}</ref> The poem, which Bates noted as being "difficult" to place in the book,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=I.S. |title=Legacy Suite #8 |url=https://www.palettepoetry.com/2022/12/01/legacy-suite-8/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Palette Poetry |language=en-US}}</ref> was called "shocking" by the Mid-American Review Blog for "its unforgiving portrayal of the violence we cause."<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Gabrielle Bates |url=https://casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/an-interview-with-gabrielle-bates/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Mid-American Review Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> On reading ''Judas Goat'', Anthony Domestico called her ]'s "poetic daughter".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Domestico |first=Anthony |title=The Year in Books: My top choices of 2023 |url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sigrid-nunez-domestico-bates-sinykin-best-books-2023 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Commonweal Magazine |date=December 16, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Mandana Chaffa, writing for the ], placed the collection as "a noteworthy debut, and confirmation of Bates's talent, heart and place in contemporary poetry."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Price of Survival in “Judas Goat” |url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2023/01/25/the-price-of-survival-in-judas-goat/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Chicago Review of Books |date=January 25, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>


⚫ Before her debut, Bates had published a chapbook ''This Afternoon We are All Arachnes'', with Book Arts, as a limited-edition poetry comic accordion booklet in 2017. Another chapbook, titled ''Before your bed was my bed / Antes de que tu cama fuese mi cama'' was published as a bilingual edition, translated by Bárbara Bianchi Ceballos (ES: Desperate Literature, 2024).<ref name=":0" />
BuzzFeed, for their list of "13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry", wrote that "Bates's debut collection wrestles with motherhood and memory and the unfixed boundaries of what makes a place — or a person — feel like home."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sackton |first=Laura |title=13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurasackton/new-poetry-recommendations |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=BuzzFeed |date=April 1, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> It was the "Most-Anticipated Book of Winter" from ].<ref>{{Cite web |title="A stunner... haunted... profound" |url=https://digital.cla.auburn.edu/perspectives-fall-2023/a-stunner-haunted-profound/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Auburn University College of Liberal Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>


⚫ She launched the podcast 'The Poet Salon' with fellow writers Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat, in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallaher |first=Rachel |title=Most Influential: Luther Hughes |url=https://seattlemag.com/seattle-culture/influential-people/luther-hughes/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Seattle Magazine |date=January 8, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Bates's "stunning opener"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Michelle R. |title=NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #7 |url=https://medium.com/@MichelleReneeSmith/napowrimo-poetry-prompt-7-344f700e1e86 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Medium |date=April 8, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> to ''Judas Goat'', the poem titled 'The Dog', which first appeared in ''The Offing'' in 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bates |first=Gabrielle |title=The Dog |url=https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/the-dog/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=The Offing |date=September 4, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> appeared on ''Poetry Daily'' over three years later.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bates |first=Gabrielle |title=The Dog |url=https://poems.com/poem/the-dog/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Poetry Daily |date=January 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> It received considerable focus, and was mentioned in the ''Northwest Review'' and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staples |first=Natalie |title=A Single Question Interview with Gabrielle Bates |url=https://nwreview.org/notes/natalie-staples/a-single-question-interview-with-gabrielle-bates/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Northwest Review |date=May 27, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sakelaris |first=Isabelle |title=The linguistic imageries of Gabrielle Bates |url=https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2023/5/23/gabrielle-bates-interview-judas-goat-tin-house |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Interlocutor |date=May 23, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> The Mid-American Review Blog called 'The Dog' "shocking" for "its unforgiving portrayal of the violence we cause."<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Gabrielle Bates |url=https://casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/an-interview-with-gabrielle-bates/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Mid-American Review Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>

⚫ Before her debut, Bates had published a chapbook ‘‘This Afternoon We are All Arachnes’’, with Book Arts, as a limited-edition poetry comic accordion booklet in 2017. Another chapbook, titled ‘‘Before your bed was my bed / Antes de que tu cama fuese mi cama’’ was published as a bilingual edition, translated by Bárbara Bianchi Ceballos (ES: Desperate Literature, 2024).<ref name=”:0” />

⚫ She launched a podcast ‘The Poet Salon’ with fellow writers Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat, in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallaher |first=Rachel |title=Most Influential: Luther Hughes |url=https://seattlemag.com/seattle-culture/influential-people/luther-hughes/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Seattle Magazine |date=January 8, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Books== ==Books==

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American writer and visual artist
Gabrielle Bates
Bates reading at an event in 2023Bates reading at an event in 2023
OccupationWriter, tutor and visual artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksJudas Goat
Website
www.gabriellebat.es/

Gabrielle Bates is a writer and visual artist from Birmingham, Alabama, and is known for her poetry comics. Her debut poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award. The book has been praised for its depiction of "encounters with nonhuman animals reveal the deception, purchase, and stakes of human behavior." Bates currently lives in Seattle.

Life and education

Gabrielle Bates was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a writer, majorly working in poetry, and visual artist, with an English (creative writing) degree from Auburn University. She graduated there in 2013, and later studied poetry at the University of Washington, where she was awarded an MFA in 2016. At Auburn, she was the managing editor of the undergraduate-run literary magazine The Circle, and worked as a lead consultant with the Miller Writing Center for three years. As a student at the University, she was part of the Student Writing Council, and Robin Williams-inspired Live Poets Society.

Career

Bates is now settled in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium as their social media manager, and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Occasionally, she teaches through Hugo House, for the Tin House Writers' Workshops and for the University of Washington Study Abroad Rome Program. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Princeton Poetry Festival. In 2019, Bates was awarded an Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry, and in 2022, she was a finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.

Her debut Judas Goat, published by Tin House in 2023, garnered praise for "the poems' unflinching depictions of violence against humans as well as raw portrayals of animals being wounded and killed by humans." In the New York Times book review 'The Shortlist', Burt notes Judas Goat's relationship with fairy tales, and Bates sold out of copies of the collection at the Brooklyn Poets booth on "the first day of ". The debut was later included in Electric Lit’s “Best Poetry Collections of 2023”, Book Riot's "12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023", and in NPR's "Books We Love: Best Books of 2023". BuzzFeed, for their list of "13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry", wrote that "Bates's debut collection wrestles with motherhood and memory and the unfixed boundaries of what makes a place — or a person — feel like home." It was the "Most-Anticipated Book of Winter" from Vulture.

Bates's "stunning", "gut-punching" opener to Judas Goat, the poem titled 'The Dog', which first appeared in The Offing in 2019, appeared on Poetry Daily over three years later. It received considerable focus, and was mentioned in the Northwest Review and elsewhere. The poem, which Bates noted as being "difficult" to place in the book, was called "shocking" by the Mid-American Review Blog for "its unforgiving portrayal of the violence we cause." On reading Judas Goat, Anthony Domestico called her Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "poetic daughter". Mandana Chaffa, writing for the Chicago Review of Books, placed the collection as "a noteworthy debut, and confirmation of Bates's talent, heart and place in contemporary poetry."

Before her debut, Bates had published a chapbook This Afternoon We are All Arachnes, with Book Arts, as a limited-edition poetry comic accordion booklet in 2017. Another chapbook, titled Before your bed was my bed / Antes de que tu cama fuese mi cama was published as a bilingual edition, translated by Bárbara Bianchi Ceballos (ES: Desperate Literature, 2024).

She launched the podcast 'The Poet Salon' with fellow writers Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat, in 2018.

Books

  • This Afternoon We are All Arachnes (Book Arts, 2017)
  • Judas Goat (US: Tin House, 2023; UK: the87press, 2025)
  • Before your bed was my bed / Antes de que tu cama fuese mi cama (bilingual edition, trans. by Bárbara Bianchi Ceballos) (Desperate Literature, 2024)

Awards

References

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  2. "2024 Washington State Book Award Winners & Finalists, Adult Categories". Whatcom County Library System. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  5. ^ "English alumna publishes second poem in The New Yorker". Auburn University. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  14. Burt, Stephanie (7 March 2023). "The Shortlist: From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  20. ""A stunner... haunted... profound"". Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  22. Pan, Connie (20 March 2023). "Reflecting on Winter's Poetry". Book Riot. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
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  24. Bates, Gabrielle (24 January 2023). "The Dog". Poetry Daily. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  25. Staples, Natalie (27 May 2024). "A Single Question Interview with Gabrielle Bates". Northwest Review. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  26. Sakelaris, Isabelle (23 May 2023). "The linguistic imageries of Gabrielle Bates". Interlocutor. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  28. Jones, I.S. "Legacy Suite #8". Palette Poetry. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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  32. Gallaher, Rachel (8 January 2025). "Most Influential: Luther Hughes". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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