Gay is a passionate gardener and a member of the founding board of the Bloomington Community Orchard. Gay also won the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a $100,000 prize that is intended to give mid-career poets the means to reach the pinnacle of their craft.īorn in Youngstown, Ohio, Gay studied at Lafayette College, Sarah Lawrence University, and Temple University, before joining IU in 2007, where he is now an associate professor in the English Department and the director of the department’s creative writing program. The collection was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gay really does have a lot to be grateful for. The title of creative writing professor Ross Gay’s latest poetry collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, turned out to be prophetic. Research Opportunities for Graduate Students. Research Opportunities for Undergraduates.Schools, Departments, Centers & Institutes.
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