G. C. Waldrep (born George Calvin Waldrep III; 1968) is an American poet and historian.
Biography Waldrep was born in South Boston, Virginia. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
He was visiting professor at Kenyon College, and editor of Kenyon Review. He previously taught at Bucknell University, before his retirement in December 2025,https://gcwaldrep.com/about/ where he edited the journal West Branch. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, New American Writing, American Letters & Commentary, Seneca Review, Tin House, Quarterly West, Octopus, Harper's, Gulf Coast and elsewhere.
He wrote an article about spinoff groups from the Old Order Anabaptist groups that no other scholar had covered and was thus widely received.The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition , in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), pages 396–426.
In 2010 he was appointed to be the final judge of the Akron Poetry Prize.
In 2012, he co-edited the poetry anthology The Arcadia Project.
He is a member of the Old Order River Brethren.G.C. Waldrep: The New Order Amish And Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition, in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), page 417.
Awards Academy of American Poets North Carolina Arts Council The PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in English 2001 Illinois Prize for history 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, for Goldbeater's Skin 2005 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award 2006 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society of America 2007 NEA grant 2008 Dorset Prize, for Archicembalo
Bibliography
Poetry Collections
(collaboration with John Gallaher)
The Opening Ritual: poems. Tupelo Press. 2024 978-1-961209-14-5 Chapbooks
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedA pause2025
"III. Palm Beach, Florida, 1987"; "IV. Santa Monica, California, 1988"; "XXII. Snow Hill, Maryland, 1989"; "XXIII. Charleston, South Carolina, 1989"; "XLI. Isle of Palms, South Carolina, 1989", Typo Magazine "How Water Is Manufactured", Memorious 11 "Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent", Blackbird, Fall 2003 "What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem", Blackbird, Fall 2003 "Apologia Pro Vita Tua", Poetry Daily "Blazon", NEA
Non-Fiction
The New Order Amish and Para-Amish Groups: Spiritual Renewal Within Tradition, in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 3 (2008), pages 396–426.
References
External links Bucknell University