Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025).
By way of the sacred homelands of the Algonquian-speaking people (New Haven, CT); of the Plains Tribes, including the Tonkawa, Apache, and Comanche (Austin, TX); and of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples in Tkaronto (Toronto, ON); he is currently based on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires in what is commonly known as Chicago, IL.
He serves as the managing poetry editor of Foglifter Journal. A Fulbright scholar and the inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.
He is a 2026 Creative Capital, 2025 National Endowment for the Arts, and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow.
He lives in Logan Square with his partner and their cat, Bibingka.