Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Loves You (Persea Books, 2019), Delivered (Persea Books, 2009), and Matadora (Alice James Books, 2004). Her first collection, Matadora (Alice James Books, 2004), was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.Alice James Books > Sarah Gambito Author Page Persea Books > Our Books Page
Career Gambito earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.F.A. from Brown University.
She is an assistant professor of English and director of creative writing at Fordham University. She is also co-founder, with Joseph Legaspi, of Kundiman (nonprofit organization), which serves emerging Asian American poets, and she lives in New York City.From the Fishouse > Sarah Gambito Bio
Gambito's poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).
Awards Gambito's honors include a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative,Author Website > Sarah Gambito and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.MacDowell Colony Recent Fellows > Sarah Gambito
Works Matadora, Alice James Books, 2004 Delivered: Poems, Persea, 2009 Loves You: Poems, Persea, 2019,
References
External links Audio: Sarah Gambito Reading for From the Fishouse Audio: WNYC 93.9 Radio > Sarah Gambito: Poet, Mentor and Teacher: Hear her read her poems > WNYC News > NEW York, NY April 1, 2008 Author Page: Sarah Gambito > Persea Books Author Page: Sarah Gambito > Alice James Books Faculty Bio: Fordham University English Department Faculty > Sarah Gambito Kundiman Website