Mag Gabbert

Mag Gabbert is an American poet and educator who currently serves as the poet laureate of Dallas, where she was born and raised. She received her BA in English from Trinity University, where she was awarded a June Cook Scholarship for Creative Writing and graduated magna cum laude, with honors in English. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of California, Riverside, and her PhD in English, with a focus on creative writing, from Texas Tech University.

Gabbert is the author of the full-length collection Sex Depression Animals (Mad Creek Books, 2023), which won the Charles B. Wheeler Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of the chapbooks The Breakup (Action, Spectacle, 2023), which won the Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Prize, and Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books, 2020).

Gabbert’s other awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 92NY Discovery Award, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review and Idyllwild Arts. She teaches at Southern Methodist University.