Sarah Gambito
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Sarah Gambito is an American
poet and professor. She is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently, Delivered (Persea Books, 2009). Her first collection, Matadora (Alice James Books
, 2004), was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.
Her honors include a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts
, Urban Artists Initiative, and a MacDowell Colony
Fellowship. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).
Gambito earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia
and her M.F.A. from Brown University
. She is an assistant professor of English and director of creative writing at Fordham University
. She is also co-founder, with Joseph Legaspi, of Kundiman (nonprofit organization)
, which serves emerging Asian-American poets, and she lives in New York City.
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poet and professor. She is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently, Delivered (Persea Books, 2009). Her first collection, Matadora (Alice James Books
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.- History and mission :...
, 2004), was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.
Her honors include a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
, Urban Artists Initiative, and a MacDowell Colony
MacDowell Colony
The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...
Fellowship. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).
Gambito earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
and her M.F.A. from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. She is an assistant professor of English and director of creative writing at Fordham University
Fordham University
Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...
. She is also co-founder, with Joseph Legaspi, of Kundiman (nonprofit organization)
Kundiman (nonprofit organization)
Kundiman is a nonprofit organization which offers writing retreats, a reading series, and a poetry prize, and is dedicated to providing "a safe yet rigorous space where Asian American poets can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora." Kundiman was...
, which serves emerging Asian-American poets, and she lives in New York City.
External links
- Audio: Sarah Gambito Reading for From the Fishouse
- Audio: WNYC 93.9 Radio > Sarah Gambito: Poet, Mentor and Teacher: Hear her read her poems > WNYC News > NEW York, NY April 1, 2008
- Author Page: Sarah Gambito > Persea Books
- Author Page: Sarah Gambito > Alice James Books
- Faculty Bio: Fordham University English Department Faculty > Sarah Gambito
- Kundiman Website