Dobby Gibson

Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. His first book of poetry, Polar, (Alice James Books, 2004) won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. He is also the author of Skirmish (Graywolf Press, 2009) and "It Becomes You" (Graywolf Press, 2013). His fourth collection, "Little Glass Planet" is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in May 2019. Gibson's poetry has appeared in many publications: Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Conduit, among others. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1997. He currently lives in Minneapolis.