Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025).
Originally from the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires (Evanston, IL), he is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto.
His work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Gulf Coast, and New England Review, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Kenyon Review, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
He serves as a reader for POETRY Magazine and managing poetry editor for Foglifter Journal. He received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta and poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability.