Gary Gildner attended Michigan State University (B.A., M.A.). He has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, Randolph College, Seattle Univ, and Michigan State Univ. He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland and to Czechoslovakia. He has given readings at the Library of Congress, Manhattan Theatre Club, Academy of American Poets, YMHA Poetry Center (NYC), and at some 300 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He lives with his wife Michele in the Clearwater Mountains of Idaho.

The Warsaw Sparks (2d edition) (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), Cleaning A Rainbow (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2007), Somewhere Geese Are Flying (Michigan State University Press, 2004), My Grandfather's Book (Michigan State University Press, 2002), Bunker in the Parsley Fields (University of Iowa Press, 1997), The Warsaw Sparks (University of Iowa Press, 1990), Blue Like the Heavens (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984)

Georgia Review, New Letters, North American Review, Shenandoah