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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 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 was 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

• 2019: The Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry
• 2022: Finalist, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship

References

1. "Art in Conversation: Gabrielle Bates (ep. 1)". Fields Magazine. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
2. "2024 Washington State Book Award Winners & Finalists, Adult Categories". Whatcom County Library System. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
3. Ok, Cindy Juyoung. "Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
4. Thompson, Jay Aquinas. "A Conversation with Gabrielle Bates". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
5. ^ "English alumna publishes second poem in The New Yorker". Auburn University. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
6. Vansynghel, Margo (31 March 2022). "Seattle's Open Books finds new home in Pioneer Square". Cascade PBS. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
7. Mohammed, Syma (26 July 2023). "A look inside Seattle's flourishing poetry scene". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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10. ^ LaBerge, Peter (19 March 2019). "Announcing The Adroit Journal's 2019 Djanikian Scholars!". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
11. "Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows". PR Newswire. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
12. ^ "Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows". Poetry Foundation. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
13. Waldman, D.S. (8 March 2023). "A Worn Violence: On Gabrielle Bates' Judas Goat". The Rumpus. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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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17. Pan, Connie (22 December 2023). "12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023". Book Riot. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
18. "Books We Love". NPR. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
19. Sackton, Laura (1 April 2023). "13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You're Trying To Get Into Poetry". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
20. ""A stunner... haunted... profound"". Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
21. Smith, Michelle R. (8 April 2024). "NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #7". Medium. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
22. Bates, Gabrielle (4 September 2019). "The Dog". The Offing. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
23. Bates, Gabrielle (24 January 2023). "The Dog". Poetry Daily. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
24. Staples, Natalie (27 May 2024). "A Single Question Interview with Gabrielle Bates". Northwest Review. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
25. Sakelaris, Isabelle (23 May 2023). "The linguistic imageries of Gabrielle Bates". Interlocutor. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
26. "Gabrielle Bates". Brooklyn Poets. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
27. Jones, I.S. "Legacy Suite #8". Palette Poetry. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
28. "An Interview with Gabrielle Bates". Mid-American Review Blog. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
29. Domestico, Anthony (16 December 2023). "The Year in Books: My top choices of 2023". Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
30. "The Price of Survival in "Judas Goat"". Chicago Review of Books. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
31. Gallaher, Rachel (8 January 2025). "Most Influential: Luther Hughes". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

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