Tess Gallagher


Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, short story writer. Her many honors were a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts award, Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award.

Biography

She studied with poet-intellectual Theodore Roethke in the University of Washington.
Born in Port Angeles, she lived there a long time, while lecturing in different institutions such as the University of Montana, St. Lawrence University, etc. She met Raymond Carver in 1977, and their relationship very much influenced her literary work, which included helping to edit and publish his writing. Tess Gallagher has a cottage in Ireland, where she now lives and works.

Raymond Carver and poetry

influenced her to write the short stories that were collected in The Lover of Horses.
She wrote Moon Crossing Bridge, a collection of love poems dedicated to Raymond Carver, who died in 1988.
She published the essay "Instead of Dying" in The Sun Magazine about Raymond Carver's life.

Distant Rain: A Conversation Between Jakucho Setouchi And Tess Gallagher

Distant Rain, published in 2006, is a conversation between Tess and Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun from Kyoto, that happened in Japan in 1990. Tess Gallagher traveled to Japan and met there a nun Jakucho Setouchi, well-known Japanese novelist, they spoke a lot about poetry, Tess Gallagher's grief about Raymond Carver, differences between cultures.

Boogie-Woogie Crisscross

Tess Gallagher wrote the book of poetry Boogie-Woogie Crisscross in collaboration with Lawrence Matsuda. They sent each other emails with new poetry and ideas, then from these correspondences was gathered the book. The collaboration started when Alfredo Arreguin, Tess Gallagher's friend, gave her a Lawrence Matsuda's poetry about World War 2 and Japanese who were imprisoned in camp Minidoka located in the western United States. Tess Gallagher helped Lawrence Matsuda to find a publisher for the poetry about Minidoka and this was how their literary friendship began.

Poetry

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The Poetry Baron1997

Essay collections

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