Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Kate Gaskin

Hometown: Alexander City, AL Lives in: ,

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About Kate Gaskin

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Kate Gaskin is the author of Forever War (YesYes Books 2020), winner of the Pamet River Prize and a Nebraska Book Award. Her most recent book of poems, A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart, is forthcoming from LSU Press on February 27th, 2026. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and The Rumpus, and her work has been anthologized in the 2019 Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship …Read More in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She has a PhD in English from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently she serves as the director of The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program, and she is also an assistant poetry editor for TRP: The University Press of SHSU. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama.

Works:

Forever War: Poems, YesYes Books, 2020
A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart: Poems, LSU Press, 2026

Awards:

The Pinch’s 2017 Literary Award in Poetry; 2021 Nebraska Book Award; 2022 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets & Writers; RHINO Poetry’s 2023 Ralph Hamilton Editors’ Prize

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