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Alex at a readingAlex Gallo-Brown is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist based in Seattle. He is the author of The Language of Grief (2012), a self-published collection of poems, and Variations of Labor (Chin Music Press, 2019), a collection of poems and stories. Called “the poet of the service economy” by author and critic Valerie Trueblood, he has been awarded the Barry Lopez Fellowship from Seattle's Hugo House, the Walthall Fellowship from Atlanta's WonderRoot, and the Emerging Artist Award from the City of Atlanta. He holds degrees in writing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Georgia State University in Atlanta. 

Gallo-Brown's essays, articles, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Salon.com, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Stranger, Fanzine, Vice's Motherboard, Poetry Northwest, Crosscut, The Oregonian, City Arts, Seattle Review of Books, and Pacifica Literary Review. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter, where he works as a union organizer.