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Gabriel Spera is an American poet.

He graduated from Cornell University, and from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with an M.F.A.

He lives in Los Angeles.^[1]

His work appeared in Cimarron Review,^[2] Prairie Schooner,^[3] The Missouri Review,^[4]

• 2009 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
• 2005 Dana Awards, finalist
• 2005 Dogwood Poetry Prize, finalist
• 2004 PEN USA-West Literary Book Award for Poetry
• 2003 Pushcart Prize Nomination
• 2002 National Poetry Series
• 1995 Villa Montalvo Biennial Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention
• 1991 Associated Writing Programs, Intro Award,
• 1989 Randall Jarrell Fellowship, UNC-G,

• "In a Field Outside the Town". Poetry. April 1999.
• The Standing Wave. Harper Perennial. 2003. ISBN 978-0-06-054182-8.
• Come, go with me. University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 1991.

• Joseph Parisi; Stephen Young, eds. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7.
• Rita Dove; David Lehman, eds. (2000). The Best American poetry, 2000. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84281-3.

• "Author's website"