Jay Deshpande

AB, Harvard University. MFA, Columbia University. Author of the poetry collection Love the Stranger (YesYes Books, 2015), named a top debut of the year by Poets & Writers, and of the chapbooks The Rest of the Body (YesYes Books, 2017) and The Umbrian Sonnets (Pank Books, 2020). Deshpande is the recipient of a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and was selected by Billy Collins as winner of the 2015 Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Republic, New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. A Civitella Ranieri fellow and a Kundiman fellow, he has taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, and in the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program. SLC 2021—

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