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Dobby Gibson is the author of Polar (Alice James Books), which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish (Graywolf Press); It Becomes You (Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award; Little Glass Planet (Graywolf Press); and Hold Everything (Graywolf Press).

Gibson's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications, as well as anthologized in books including Good Poems American Places (Penguin Books). He’s been a visitor to colleges and universities including Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, New York University, UMass-Amherst, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Born in Minneapolis, Gibson earned his BA in English Literature from Connecticut College, and an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Indiana University.

The recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board, Gibson has served on the Board of Directors of The Loft Literary Center and The Anderson Center at Tower View.