Gabriel Welsch

Poet, Fiction Writer

Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US
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Author's Bio

I write fiction and poetry, as well as book reviews and the occasional essay. My work has earned a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant for Fiction, inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2012 as one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2011,” a poet-in-residence position at the Toledo Botanical Gardens from Mid-American Review, and numerous Pushcart nominations. I earned my MFA at Penn State and now live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with my family, and work as vice president of marketing and communications at Duquesne University. I have occasionally taught writing at the Chautauqua Institution.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:
Visiting Hours and Other Stories (Press 53, 2009)
Book:
Groundscratchers (Tolsun Books, 2021)
Journals:
Ascent
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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Crab Orchard Review
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Spoon River Poetry Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012)
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Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press, 2005)
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O! Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2004)
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Sudden Stories (Mammoth Books, 2003)
Books:
The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocaylpse (Steel Toe Books, 2013)
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The Death of Flying Things (WordTech Editions, 2012)
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Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (WordTech Editions, 2006)
Chapbook:
An Eye Fluent in Gray (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Born in: 
Sanford
Raised in: 
Downingtown, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Dec 29, 2020