Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023; the87press, 2025), a New York Times Book Review Critic’s Pick, an NPR Best Book of 2023, and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. The recipient of support from the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, her writing has been featured in the New Yorker, the Believer, Ploughshares, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Alabama, based for a decade in Seattle, she currently serves as social media manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and teaches occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA Program, and the Tin House Writers’ Workshops