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He now teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and the low-residency MFA in poetry program at Drew University. He has taught poetry, art, and literature at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He is also an editor with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press. He is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin '. in American Literature from Temple University. from Lafayette College, his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and his Ph.D. Ross Gay was born on Augin Youngstown, Ohio, but he grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania. Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and professor who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. Professor, founding board member of the Bloomington Community OrchardĪgainst Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2014)Ģ016 Kingsley Tufts Award, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 2015 National Book Award Finalist, 2015 Radcliffe Fellow, 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Cave Canem Fellow