Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander | |
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Gander in 2017 | |
| Born | January 21, 1956 Barstow, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction, Translation |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Spouse | C. D. Wright (m. 1983; died 2016) Ashwini Bhat |
Forrest Gander (born January 21, 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.