Dobby Gibson

Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. His first book of poetry, Polar, (Alice James Books, 2004) won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. He is also author of Skirmish (2009) It Becomes You (2013), and Little Glass Plane (2019), all published by Graywolf Press.

Gibson's poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Conduit, among others publications. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1997. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.