Jason Gordy Walker

Poet

Alabama US

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Author's Bio

Jason Gordy Walker is a poet, writer, translator, critic, and interviewer. He has taught at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and the University of Florida, worked with literary journals such as Birmingham Poetry Review, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), and Subtropics, and placed writing with a variety of venues both online and in print. His translations from the Norwegian of Rune Christiansen appear or are forthcoming in BPR, B O D Y, Cordite Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, and Subtropics. He reviews books for Asymptote, BPR, and Alabama Writers' Forum.

Education:

University of Florida MFA

Writers Retreats:

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

New York State Summer Writers Institute

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama (Texas Review Press, 2023)

The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology (Lamar University Literary Press, 2016)

Journals:

Atlanta Review

Birmingham Arts Journal

Broad River Review

Cellpoems

Confrontation

Delta Poetry Review

Dunes Review

Hawai'i Pacific Review

Louisiana Literature

Measure

Nimrod

One Art

Pembroke Magazine

Poetry South

Ponder Review

Schuylkill Valley Journal

The Inflectionist Review

Think

Town Creek Poetry

Prizes won:

Scholarships from The New York State Summer Writers Institute, Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, The West Chester University Poetry Conference (twice awarded), Auburn Writers Conference, National Graduate Creative Writing Conference at The University of West Georgia. Won the Barksdale-Maynard Prize for Poetry at The University of Alabama-Birmingham. 2025 February Artist-in-Residence at Newnan ArtRez.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Anna Akhmatova, Inger Christensen, Claudia Emerson, Jon Fosse, Olav H. Hauge, Roy Jacobsen, Donald Justice, Franz Kafka, Han Kang, Halldór Laxness, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Edith Södergran, Tomas Tranströmer, Enrique Vila-Matas. Robert Herrick.

What I'm reading now:

The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock , Evening Land (aftonland) by Pär Lagerkvist, tr. W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg, Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Jan 16, 2026