Robin Gow

Robin Gow is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.

Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.

Robin is the author of the chapbooks Honeysuckle at Finishing Line Press, Backyard Paleontology at Glass Poetry, and A Museum for That Which No Longer Exists at Alternating Current Press (Forthcoming 2024), as well as the collections Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy by Tolsun Books and the moon crawls on all fours by Weasel Press. Fae is also the author of an essay collection, Blue Blood, with Nasiona Publishing House. Most recent collection of poetry, Lanternfly August, is with Driftwood Press.

In addition to writing poetry, Gow also writes Young Adult and Middle-Grade books. It is the author of YA novels in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions, and Ode to My First Car with FSG Books for Young Readers, and Dear Mothman with Abrams Books.

Fae is a managing editor The Nasiona. He also formerly worked as the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books, served for four years as the production editor of the Lantern literary magazine, and three years as the Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. It has also worked to help produce several zines and taught creative writing workshops in a variety of community spaces, including online forms.

He is an autistic bisexual genderqueer person passionate about queer and disability justice.

Over the last five years, Robin has trained over 3,000 people on LGBTQIA2+ Inclusion and Equity and Neurodiversity/Disability Justice topics. He has given presentations at national conferences including the Philly Trans Wellness Conference and Youth Rise Up Conference and to organizations like Arts Quest, Bethlehem School District, Rutgers University, and Allentown City Hall. He serves on the Board of Eastern PA Trans Equity Project and Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living and is a founding organizer of Queer & Trans Lehigh Valley.

Gow is available for interviews, author visits, writing workshops, and collaborations. Additionally, Gow does consulting, education, and training work around queer and trans identities, disability, and neurodiversity.

You can email Robin at [email protected].

Robin prefers the pronouns it, fae, and he but all pronouns except for “she/her” are alright.

https://robingow.com/