Poetry. Asian American Studies. With seriocomic tone, these elliptical lyrics reveal illusions and exclusions at the heart of America's global narrative of economic "progress," and the attendant loss of cultural identity and memory. At the same time, MATADORA challenges traditional Fillipina gender norms, beginning with the title which feminizes a word and profession traditionally masculine.

"Early in Sarah Gambito's book, we learn that 'You cannot be in two places at once.' In fact, the personality presented in these poems (they are personal poems; that is to say, they have their own unique and consistent personality) seems to have come from Elsewhere, on the way to Everywhere."
—Keith Waldrop

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and MATADORA (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, FEBCE and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. Together with Joseph O. Legaspi, she co-founded Kundiman, a non- profit organization serving Asian American poets.

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