Jay Gao Explained

Jay Gao
Birth Place:Preston
Occupation:Poet
Nationality:British
Education:University of Edinburgh
Brown University
Columbia University
Genre:Poetry
Notableworks:Imperium
Awards:Eric Gregory Award
Somerset Maugham Award

Jay Gao is a Chinese Scottish poet and writer from Edinburgh, based in New York City.

Education

Jay Gao was born in Preston in 1994 but was raised in Glasgow and Edinburgh. After attending the University of Edinburgh, he later earned his MFA in Literary Arts (Poetry) from Brown University.[1] He is currently a PhD student in English Literature at Columbia University.[2]

Career

Between 2017 and 2022, Gao began publishing under the name Jay G Ying, publishing two poetry pamphlets during this time: Wedding Beasts (2019), shortlisted for the 2019 Callum MacDonald Memorial Award;[3] and Katabasis (2020), winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize, judged by Mary Jean Chan.[4]

In 2018, Gao co-founded the Scottish BPOC Writers Network with Alycia Pirmohamed as an "advocacy and professional development group for Scottish and Scotland-based writers and literary professionals who identify as BPOC (Black people, People of Colour)".[5]

In 2019, Gao participated in the Palestine Festival of Literature as a visiting author, alongside writers including Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Natalie Diaz.[6]

In 2020, Gao was part of a delegation for the 35th British Council Literature Seminar in Hamburg, in collaboration with Literaturhaus Hamburg, in order to promote new Scottish literature and voices alongside Louise Welsh, Mary Paulson-Ellis, Malachy Tallack, and Kirsty Logan.[7]

In 2022, his debut poetry collection, Imperium, was published by Carcanet[8] and was subsequently a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize,[9] a Somerset Maugham Award,[10] and an Eric Gregory Award.[11] Imperium was also a runner-up for the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award[12] and long-listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award.[13] He also published a poetry pamphlet TRAVESTY58 in 2022.[14]

In 2022, his short story "The Baron and His Volcano" won the 2022 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, a prize that aims to celebrate international writers of experimental fiction.[15] [16] [17]

His writing has received support from literary institutions and residencies such as Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,[18] Tin House,[19] Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Community of Writers. A former Contributing Editor for The White Review,[20] he currently reads for Poetry.[21]

Works

Poetry Collections

Poetry Pamphlets/Chapbooks

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Communications . Brown Office of University . Reading: Jay Gao, My Tran, Chibuihe Obi Achimba . 2024-05-26 . events.brown.edu . en.
  2. Web site: Jay Gao . Columbia University.
  3. Web site: The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2019 . 2024-05-26 . Scottish Poetry Library . en-GB.
  4. Web site: Katabasis . 2024-05-26 . The Poetry Business . en-GB.
  5. Web site: About - . 2024-05-26 . en-US.
  6. Web site: PalFest 2019 Report PDF . 2024-05-26 . Scribd . en.
  7. Web site: #BritLitHamburg: Scottish Literature Now! - Literature . 2024-05-26 . literature.britishcouncil.org.
  8. Web site: Carcanet reveals 2022 debut collections . 2024-05-27 . Bookbrunch . en.
  9. Web site: Dami . 2020-08-07 . Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize Competition . 2024-05-26 . The English Association . en-GB.
  10. Web site: 2020-05-08 . Somerset Maugham Awards - The Society of Authors . 2024-05-26 . en-GB.
  11. Web site: 2020-05-08 . Eric Gregory Awards - The Society of Authors . 2024-05-26 . en-GB.
  12. Web site: 2022-08-24 . EMPA 2022: Winners . 2024-05-26 . en-GB.
  13. Web site: Carcanet Press - Imperium . 2024-05-26 . www.carcanet.co.uk.
  14. Web site: Jay Gao, TRAVESTY58: Lake Poems . 2024-05-26 . SPAM . en.
  15. Web site: Jay Gao scoops Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize . 2024-05-26 . The Bookseller . En.
  16. Web site: Anderson . Porter . 2022-08-23 . Spain's 2022 Desperate Literature Prize Goes to Jay Gao . 2024-05-26 . Publishing Perspectives . en-US.
  17. Web site: Jay Gao wins Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize . 2024-05-27 . Bookbrunch . en.
  18. Web site: Audio Recordings Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences . 2024-05-26 . www.middlebury.edu . en.
  19. Web site: Jay Gao . 2024-05-26 . Tin House . en-US.
  20. Web site: About . 2024-05-26 . The White Review . en-US.
  21. Web site: Foundation . Poetry . 2024-05-26 . Announcing the New POETRY Magazine Podcast Host and Readers for POETRY! . 2024-05-26 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  22. Book: Gao, Jay . Imperium . 2022 . Carcanet Poetry . 978-1-80017-247-0 . Manchester.
  23. Book: Gao, Jay . Bark, Archive, Splinter . Out-Spoken Press . 2024 . 9781738412501.
  24. Book: Gao, Jay . Bark, Archive, Splinter . Belladonna* Collaborative . 2024.
  25. Book: Gao, Jay . TRAVESTY58: Lake Poems . SPAM Press . 2022 . 978-1-915049-10-0.
  26. Book: Gao, Jay . Katabasis . 2020 . SmithDoorstop . 978-1-912196-30-2.
  27. Book: Gao, Jay . Wedding Beasts . Bitter Melon . 2019.
  28. Web site: Magazine . The London . 2022-02-25 . News Poetry Prize 2021/22: Jay Gao wins first place for his poem 'Sky Soldier' . 2024-05-26 . The London Magazine . en-GB.
  29. Web site: Mullen . Alice . 2018-03-16 . 1st PRIZE: JAY G YING . 2024-05-26 . The Poetry Book Society . en.

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