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
More about the Meacham online at: utc.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/meachamwriters.