Tess Gallagher

Poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright Tess Gallagher was born on July 21, 1943, in Port Angeles, Washington. Gallagher is the author of eleven books of poetry. Her first collection of poems, Instructions to the Double (Graywolf Press, 1976), won the 1976 Elliston Book Award for “best book of poetry published by a small press.” In 1984, she published Willingly (Graywolf Press), which consists of poems written to and about her third husband, writer Raymond Carver, who died in 1988. Other collections include Is, Is Not (Graywolf Press, 2019), winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award; Dear Ghosts (Graywolf Press, 2006); My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1995); Owl-Spirit Dwelling (Trask House Books, 1995); and Moon Crossing Bridge (Graywolf Press, 1992). (Source)