The Creative Writing Series invites you to an evening with Gabrielle Bates. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore will be on site with copies of the author's books available for purchase.
Gabrielle Bates's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, and Southern Indiana Review. Her debut collection, Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), was named a "Best Book of 2023" by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Originally from Alabama, Bates is currently based in the Pacific Northwest, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers' Workshops. A new edition of Judas Goat is forthcoming in Autumn 2025 from the87press in the UK. www.gabriellebat.es