Ross Gay

Ross Gay is an American poet and essayist who teaches English at Indiana University. Gay's 2014 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, a poetry collection, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Gay's other books include Be Holding, Inciting Joy, The Book of Delights, and Against Which, a poetry collection about violence, love, and grief.