Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat, forthcoming from Tin House in 2023. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, APR, BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, Catapult, and elsewhere; she teaches occasionally through Hugo House and the University of Washington Rome Center.
Photo credit: Liesa Cole 2021