Description
Stephen Gibson was born and raised in New York City where he met W.H. Auden, who became an important influence on his work, and studied at Syracuse University with W.D. Snodgrass, who became another important influence. His previous poetry collections are Masaccio’s Expulsion, selected by Andrew Hudgins as winner of the Robert E. Lee and Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award from MARGIE/IntuiT House, Rorschach Art from Red Hen Press, and the chapbook Bodies in the Bog, published by Texas Review Press. A past Individual Artist Fellowship recipient from the state of Florida in both poetry and fiction, his poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, North American Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, among others; and in the anthologies Don’t Leave Hungry, Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (Arkansas) and High Five: An Anthology of Fiction from Ten Years of Five Points (Carroll & Graf ). Mr. Gibson lives with his wife in Florida.