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Rob Macaisa Colgate
Rob Macaisa Colgate is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His work appears in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review and Poets.org, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, Sewanee and Kenyon Review. He serves as a reader for POETRY Magazine and managing poetry editor for Foglifter Journal. The inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.
Contact: University of Alberta Augustana, Founders’ Hall, 4901 46 Avenue, Camrose AB T4V 2R3, Canada.