Robin Gow | Glass Poetry Press

Robin Gow (Backyard Paleontology) is a trans poet and young adult author from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (Tolsun Books 2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (Finishing Line Press 2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions is forthcoming March 2022 with FSG Books for Young Readers. Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review, and Yemassee. Gow received their MFA from Adelphi University where they were also an adjunct instructor. Gow is a managing editor at The Nasiona and the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books. They live in Allentown Pennsylvania with their queer family and two pug dogs and work at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center.

This is a taut collection brimming with questions. As poet-paleontologist, Robin Gow gets their hands dirty. These poems dig, unearth, excavate, recover, and reveal. Imbued with the wide-eyed curiosity of childhood, Backyard Paleontology offers a snapshot of a poet in mid-discovery. In one of many clarion moments, the poet writes: "This is how I want to be found."

— Jan-Henry Gray, author of Documents