Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander
Gander in 2017
Born	(1956-01-21) January 21, 1956 (age 69) Barstow, California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Education	College of William and Mary (BS) San Francisco State University (MA)
Genre	Poetry, Fiction, Translation
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship
Spouse	C. D. Wright (m. 1983; died 2016) Ashwini Bhat

Forrest Gander (born January 21, 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.