Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025).
By way of the sacred homelands of the Algonquian-speaking people (New Haven, CT); of the Plains Tribes, including the Tonkawa, Apache, and Comanche (Austin, TX); and of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples in Tkaronto (Toronto, ON); he is currently based on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires in what is commonly known as Chicago, IL.
He serves as a reader for POETRY Magazine and managing poetry editor for Foglifter Journal. A Fulbright scholar and the inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin. In 2024, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
Read an interview with Rob in New England Review here or in Malahat Review here. Watch or listen to Rob read poems with the League of Canadian Poets here.