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Robin Gow

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Born

in Kutztown , The United States

Website

https://frobingowpoetry.wordpress.com/

Genre

Poetry, Young Adult, Children's

Member Since

February 2014

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Gow grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives in Allentown Pennsylvania with their two pugs, Eddie and Gertie and their queer family. He works at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center coordinating supportive services for the local LGBTQIA+ community.

Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned their MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where they also taught writing courses as an adjunct professor.

Gow runs the trans & queer reading series Gender Reveal Party and co-edits the new magazine The Comments Section.

Robin is the author of the chapbook Honeysuckle by Finishing Line Press and the collection Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy by Tolsun Books.

Their first YA novel in verse, A Million Quiet Revolut ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 5,331 ratings · 1,301 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dear Mothman 4.23 avg rating — 2,904 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Million Quiet Revolutions 4.14 avg rating — 1,226 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ode to My First Car 3.63 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gooseberry 3.68 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saber-Tooth: A Novel in Verse 3.66 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lanternfly August by Robin Gow (Goodreads Author), Jerrod Schwarz (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honeysuckle 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon Crawls on All Fours 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monstrous Cartography it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Robin Gow (?)

“Sometimes it’s hard to feel real. It’s hard to even feel trans because people don’t believe us, but I know who I am.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

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“It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

tags: friendship, identity, lgbtq, loneliness

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“No one listens to kids or monsters.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

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The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller

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Saber-Tooth: A Novel in Verse by Robin Gow

12 votes 23.1%

A Tale of Plagues and Perfumes by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski

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Eureka by Victoria Chang

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