Biographical Info

Tess Gallagher, the author of eleven books of poetry, lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington, and in her cottage in Co. Sligo, Ireland.  She is the only American to have been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her poetry from the Foundation of Rome, which she received in 2023. Her most recent poetry collection Is, Is Not, published by Graywolf press, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.  Gallagher participated in BIRDMAN and SHORT CUTS, films centered on the work of her late husband Raymond Carver’s stories.  Her own collection, The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories, published in 2009, is the basis for film episodes under development.  She was privileged to speak and read in celebration of Theodore Roethke at the Bloedel Reserve in September 2024.