Rob Colgate

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and hybrid writer. He is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His forthcoming multimedia verse novel The Vice of Our Jaws (Tin House, 2027) won the 2026 Creative Capital Award. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts, 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg, and 2023 Fulbright Research fellow, his work appears in Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, and Poets.org, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, Millay, and Kenyon Review. The managing poetry editor at Foglifter, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and lives in Chicago.