Chinese Scottish poet and writer
Jay Gao is a Chinese Scottish poet and writer from Edinburgh , based in New York City .
Early life and education
Jay Gao was born in Preston in 1994 but was raised in Glasgow and Edinburgh . After attending the University of Edinburgh , he later earned his MFA in Literary Arts (Poetry) from Brown University .[ 1] He is currently a PhD student in English Literature at Columbia University .[ 2]
Career
Between 2017 and 2022, Gao began publishing under the name Jay G Ying, publishing two poetry pamphlets during this time: Wedding Beasts (2019), shortlisted for the 2019 Callum MacDonald Memorial Award ;[ 3] and Katabasis (2020), winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize, judged by Mary Jean Chan .[ 4]
In 2018, Gao co-founded the Scottish BPOC Writers Network with Alycia Pirmohamed as an "advocacy and professional development group for Scottish and Scotland-based writers and literary professionals who identify as BPOC (Black people, People of Colour)".[ 5]
In 2019, Gao participated in the Palestine Festival of Literature as a visiting author, alongside writers including Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Natalie Diaz .[ 6]
In 2020, Gao was part of a delegation for the 35th British Council Literature Seminar in Hamburg, in collaboration with Literaturhaus Hamburg, in order to promote new Scottish literature and voices alongside Louise Welsh , Mary Paulson-Ellis , Malachy Tallack , and Kirsty Logan .[ 7]
In 2022, his debut poetry collection, Imperium , was published by Carcanet [ 8] and was subsequently a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize,[ 9] a Somerset Maugham Award ,[ 10] and an Eric Gregory Award .[ 11] Imperium was also a runner-up for the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award [ 12] and long-listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award .[ 13] He also published a poetry pamphlet TRAVESTY58 in 2022.[ 14]
In 2022, his short story "The Baron and His Volcano" won the 2022 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, a prize that aims to celebrate international writers of experimental fiction.[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
His writing has received support from literary institutions and residencies such as Bread Loaf Writers' Conference ,[ 18] Tin House ,[ 19] Civitella Ranieri Foundation ,[ 15] and Community of Writers . A former Contributing Editor for The White Review ,[ 20] he currently reads for Poetry .[ 21]
Works
Poetry Collections
Poetry Pamphlets/Chapbooks
Awards
References
^ Communications, Brown Office of University. "Reading: Jay Gao, My Tran, Chibuihe Obi Achimba" . events.brown.edu . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Jay Gao" . Columbia University .
^ "The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2019" . Scottish Poetry Library . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ a b "Katabasis" . The Poetry Business . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "About -" . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "PalFest 2019 Report | PDF" . Scribd . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "#BritLitHamburg: Scottish Literature Now! - Literature" . literature.britishcouncil.org . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Carcanet reveals 2022 debut collections" . Bookbrunch . Retrieved 2024-05-27 .
^ a b Dami (2020-08-07). "Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize Competition" . The English Association . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ a b "Somerset Maugham Awards - The Society of Authors" . 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ a b "Eric Gregory Awards - The Society of Authors" . 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "EMPA 2022: Winners" . 2022-08-24. Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Carcanet Press - Imperium" . www.carcanet.co.uk . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Jay Gao, TRAVESTY58: Lake Poems" . SPAM . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ a b c "Jay Gao scoops Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize" . The Bookseller . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ a b Anderson, Porter (2022-08-23). "Spain's 2022 Desperate Literature Prize Goes to Jay Gao" . Publishing Perspectives . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Jay Gao wins Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize" . Bookbrunch . Retrieved 2024-05-27 .
^ "Audio Recordings | Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences" . www.middlebury.edu . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "Jay Gao" . Tin House . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ "About" . The White Review . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ Foundation, Poetry (2024-05-26). "Announcing the New POETRY Magazine Podcast Host and Readers for POETRY!" . Poetry Foundation . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ Gao, Jay (2022). Imperium . Manchester: Carcanet Poetry. ISBN 978-1-80017-247-0 .
^ Gao, Jay (2024). Bark, Archive, Splinter . Out-Spoken Press. ISBN 9781738412501 .
^ Gao, Jay (2024). Bark, Archive, Splinter . Belladonna* Collaborative.
^ Gao, Jay (2022). TRAVESTY58: Lake Poems . SPAM Press. ISBN 978-1-915049-10-0 .
^ Gao, Jay (2020). Katabasis . Smith|Doorstop. ISBN 978-1-912196-30-2 .
^ Gao, Jay (2019). Wedding Beasts . Bitter Melon.
^ Magazine, The London (2022-02-25). "News | Poetry Prize 2021/22: Jay Gao wins first place for his poem 'Sky Soldier' " . The London Magazine . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .
^ Mullen, Alice (2018-03-16). "1st PRIZE: JAY G YING" . The Poetry Book Society . Retrieved 2024-05-26 .