Rob Colgate is a disabled, bakla, Filipino-American poet. He holds a degree in psychology from Yale University and an M.F.A. in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.
A Pushcart nominee, his work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Washington Square Review, Sonora Review, and Adroit, among others. In addition to MacDowell, his writing has received support from Fulbright and The Kenyon Review.
He serves as assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Journal and as an editorial reader at POETRY Magazine. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Disability Studies and poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability.
At MacDowell, Colgate completed a draft of his poetry collection Hardly Creatures. Poems from the collection are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Sewanee Review. The collection engages visual arts accessibility practices to explore modes of intimacy.
