Sarah Gambito


Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Loves You, Delivered, and Matadora. Her first collection, Matadora, was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.

Life

Her 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.
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, which serves emerging Asian American poets, and she lives in New York City.

Awards

Her 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, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

Works