Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Poet Lore, Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie worked for many years as a nurse practitioner caring for people caught in homelessness. He is the poetry editor for Solstice Literary Magazine, and he divides his time between Boston and an apple orchard in Vermont.
