Gabrielle Bates is a writer and visual artist originally from Birmingham.
Her first book - a collection of poems - is “Judas Goat.”
On Saturday, here in Chattanooga, she appears at two events hosted by the Meacham Writers’ Workshop, a biannual series of events for writers supported in part by our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Sybil Baker - a UC Foundation Professor in English / Creative Writing - is the Workshop’s director.
Sybil Baker
Poet Christian Collier is the inaugural Meacham Fellow.
![Christian J. Collier](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d561009/2147483647/strip/true/crop/641x613+0+0/resize/880x842!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fff%2Fd1d7f116480fadbd23d851606476%2Fcollier.png)
Christian J. Collier
More about the Meacham online at: utc.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/meachamwriters.