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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Rural Spaces |

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By Gabrielle Bates

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Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), Electric Lit’s Top Poetry Book of the Year and an NPR Best Book of 2023. Originally from Alabama, Bates currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares; on the Between the Covers podcast; and elsewhere. She has served as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers’ Workshops.

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