"Gabriel Welsch's remarkable third collection boisterously offers up a wonderfully imaginative romp through the wilds of pop-culture and various amusing suburban conflicts. These poems are at once hilarious and tender in their resolve to praise the very pulse of a busy life-even if we face the know...more
I write fiction and poetry, as well as book reviews and the occasional essay. My work has earned a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant for Fiction, inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2012 as one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2011,” and a poet-in-residence position at the Toledo Botanical Gardens from Mid-American Review. I earned my MFA at Penn State and now live in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, with my family, and work as vice president of advancement and ma...more
