Robin Gow

Robin Gow is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.

Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.

Robin is the author of the chapbooks Honeysuckle at Finishing Line Press, Backyard Paleontology at Glass Poetry, and A Museum for That Which No Longer Exists at Alternating Current Press (Forthcoming 2024), as well as the collections Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy by Tolsun Books and the moon crawls on all fours by Weasel Press. Fae is also the author of an essay collection, Blue Blood, with Nasiona Publishing House. Most recent collection of poetry, Lanternfly August, is with Driftwood Press.

In addition to writing poetry, Gow also writes Young Adult and Middle-Grade books. It is the author of YA novels in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions, and Ode to My First Car with FSG Books for Young Readers, and Dear Mothman with Abrams Books.

He is an autistic bisexual genderqueer person passionate about queer and disability justice.

Robin prefers the pronouns it, fae, and he but all pronouns except for “she/her” are alright.

from Author Website

Photo credit: Rain Black.