Jay Deshpande

Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger (YesYes Books) and the chapbooks The Rest of the Body (YesYes Books) and The Umbrian Sonnets (PANK). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, New England Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and others, and his essays and criticism have appeared in magazines including Slate, the New Republic, and Publishers Weekly. Deshpande is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, the Scotti Merrill Memorial Award, a Kundiman fellowship, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Saltonstall Arts Colony, and Vermont Studio Center. Deshpande teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University and for Brooklyn Poets. He was born in Austin, Texas, and earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia University.