Gabrielle Bates's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, and Sewanee 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. You can find her online at www.gabriellebat.es, on Twitter (@GabrielleBates), and on IG (@gabrielle_bates_).