Gabrielle Bates

• Name — Gabrielle Bates • Born — 1991 • Occupation — * writer • tutor • visual artist • Language — English • Education — BA in English (creative writing), 2013 MFA in creative writing, 2016 • Alma Mater — Auburn University University of Washington • Genre — * poetry • visual art • creative nonfiction • Notable Works — Judas Goat "For Louise Glück" • Awards — * Washington State Book Award (finalist, 2024) • Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship (finalist, 2022) • The Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program (scholar, 2019) • Website — www.gabriellebat.es

Bates, who is a Scorpio, was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned a BA in English (creative writing) from Auburn University in 2013 and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington in 2016. Bates is the daughter of the professional photographer Liesa Cole. In 2014, she married Andrew Stahlman, whom she met while at Auburn.

Based in Seattle, Bates has worked for Open Books: A Poem Emporium as a social media manager and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon with Lue Hughes and Dujie Tahat. She has taught through Hugo House, the Rosenbach Museum, Tin House Writers' Workshops, and 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 and scholarships including the Gregory Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry from The Adroit Journal in 2019. In 2022, she was a finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Judas Goat was published by Tin House in 2023. In The New York Times column "The Shortlist", Stephanie Burt discussed the collection's relationship to fairy tales. The book was also included in NPR's "Books We Love: Best Books of 2023". A UK and Ireland edition of Judas Goat was published by the87press in October 2025. Before her debut collection, Bates published the chapbook This Afternoon We are All Arachnes as a limited-edition poetry-comic accordion booklet with Book Arts in 2017. Another chapbook, 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 in 2024. In January 2025, her essay on Brigit Pegeen Kelly's collection Song (1995), titled "The Verberating World", was published as part of West Branchs "This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective", edited by Shara Lessley. As of 2025, Bates was also a visiting writer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• 2014: Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets Fellowship • 2017: June Dodge Fellowship, Mineral School Artist Residency • 2019: Jack Straw Writers Fellowship