Gabrielle Bates

Gabrielle Bates is a writer and visual artist from Birmingham, Alabama. She is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023). Bates’s work has been published in Poetry, Gulf Coast, BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, New England Review, and TheNew Yorker, among other outlets. Bates has received fellowships from Hugo House, Mineral School, and Amazon Literary Partnership, and she was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.

Bates lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. She teaches through Hugo House and the University of Washington Study Abroad Rome Program.