GABRIEL WELSCH

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Gabriel Welsch is author of the poetry collection, Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (2006). His poems, stories, essays and reviews appear widely, in New Letters, Georgia Review, Tar River Poetry, Harvard Review, Chautauqua, Ascent, Mid-American Review, Isotope, Missouri Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sou'wester, and several other journals. Welsch has won a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist's Fellowship for Fiction, was the inaugural Thoreau Poet in Residence at the Toledo Botanical Garden, has taught at the Chautauqua Institution's Writer's Center, and has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. He earned bachelor's and master's of fine arts degrees in English at Penn State, now works as assistant vice president for marketing at Juniata College, and lives in Huntingdon, PA, with his wife and daughters.