Tess Gallagher

Gallagher was born in Port Angeles, Washington to logger and longshoreman Leslie Bond and gardener mother Georgia Bond. She studied with poet-intellectual Theodore Roethke in the University of Washington, earning both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English.{{cite news |last1=Moffet |first1=Penelope |title=An Interview With Tess Gallagher |url=https://www.pw.org/content/an_interview_with_tess_gallagher |access-date=4 August 2021 |work=Poets & Writers |date=August 1988 |language=en}} She also attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she made films.{{Cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Sharon |date=1979 |title=An Interview with Tess Gallagher |url=https://fscj.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fscj%3A1198#page/n47/mode/2up |journal=Kalliope: A Journal of Woman's Literature and Art |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=46–55}}

In November 1977 Gallagher met Raymond Carver, a short story writer and poet, at a writers' conference in Dallas, Texas and their relationship very much influenced her literary work, which included helping to edit and publish his writing.{{cite web|title=When Tess and Ray Talked About Love|url= https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2019/10/31/what-tess-and-ray-talked-about-when-they-talked-about-love |website=The Attic|date= October 31, 2019 |access-date=5 November 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Jeff |title=Northwest writers at work: Tess Gallager in Raymond Carver country |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/O/2009/09/northwest_writers_at_work_tess.html |access-date=4 August 2021 |work=The Oregonian |date=19 September 2009 |language=en}} Beginning in January 1979, Carver and Gallagher lived together in El Paso, Texas, in a borrowed cabin near Port Angeles, Washington, and in Tucson, Arizona. In 1980, the two moved to Syracuse, New York, where Gallagher had been appointed the coordinator of the creative writing program at Syracuse University; Carver taught as a professor in the English department. They jointly purchased a house in Syracuse, at 832 Maryland Avenue. In ensuing years, the house became so popular that the couple had to hang a sign outside that read "Writers At Work" in order to be left alone.{{cite book|title=What It Used To Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver|url=https://archive.org/details/whatitusedtobeli00carv|url-access=registration|publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=July 11, 2006|author=Carver, Maryann|isbn=9780312332587}}

In 1988, six weeks prior to his death, Carver and Gallagher married in Reno, Nevada.

Tess Gallagher spends part of her time living in a cottage in County Sligo, Ireland, and has a long-time Irish partner.{{Cite news |title=Gracious keeper of the flame |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/gracious-keeper-of-the-flame-1.1295136 |access-date=2023-01-28 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}

Raymond Carver influenced her to write the short stories that were collected in The Lover of Horses (1986).

She wrote Moon Crossing Bridge, a collection of love poems dedicated to Raymond Carver, who died in 1988.

She published the essay "Instead of Dying" in The Sun Magazine about Raymond Carver's life.{{cite news|journal=Sun Magazine|title=Instead of Dying|date=December 2006|author=Tess Gallagher|issue=372|url=http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/372}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.literaturewales.org/lectures/i/124022/|publisher=Academi Intoxication Conference|title=Instead of Dying|author=Tess Gallagher by Tim Crosby|year=2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222233213/http://www.literaturewales.org/lectures/i/124022/|archive-date=February 22, 2014|df=mdy-all}}

Distant Rain, published in 2006, is a conversation between Tess and Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun from Kyoto, that happened in Japan in 1990. They spoke about poetry, Tess Gallagher's grief about Raymond Carver, and differences between cultures.{{cite web |url=https://calvinbook.com/products/9781597660150-1597660159-distant-rain-a-conversation-between-jakucho-setouchi-and-tess-gallagher-english-and-japanese-edition|title=Distant Rain: A Conversation Between Jakucho Setouchi And Tess Gallagher (English And Japanese Edition)|website=calvinbook|access-date=June 28, 2019}}

Tess Gallagher wrote the book of poetry Boogie-Woogie Crisscross in collaboration with Lawrence Matsuda. They sent each other emails with new poetry and ideas, then from these correspondences was gathered the book. The collaboration started when Alfredo Arreguin, Tess Gallagher's friend, gave her poetry by Lawrence Matsuda's about World War II and Japanese who were imprisoned in camp Minidoka located in the western United States. Tess Gallagher helped Lawrence Matsuda to find a publisher for the poetry about Minidoka and this was how their literary friendship began.{{cite web |title='Boogie-Woogie Crisscross' a heartfelt collaboration|url=https://iexaminer.org/boogie-woogie-crisscross-a-heartfelt-collaboration/|date=April 20, 2016|last=Aoki|first=Betsy |website=iExaminer|access-date=June 28, 2019}}

Gallagher has taught at various institutions including St. Lawrence University, University of Montana, University of Arizona, Syracuse University, Bucknell University, and Whitman College.

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• {{cite book |title=Stepping outside : poems |year=1974 |location=Lisbon, Iowa |publisher=Penumbra Press}}
• {{cite book|title=Instructions To The Double|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=1975|isbn=978-0-91530-803-3}}
• {{cite book|title=Under Stars|url=https://archive.org/details/understarspoems0000gall|url-access=registration|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=1978| isbn =978-0-915308-19-4}}
• {{cite book|title=Willingly|url=https://archive.org/details/willinglypoems00gall|url-access=registration|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=1984| isbn= 978-0-915308-46-0}}
• {{cite book|title=The Hug|year=1984}}
• {{cite book|title=Amplitude|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=1987|isbn=978-1-55597-099-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/amplitudenewsele0000gall}}
• {{cite book|title=Moon Crossing Bridge|publisher= Graywolf Press|year=1992| isbn =978-1-55597-156-4}}
• {{cite book|title=I Stop Writing the Poem|year= 1992}}
• {{cite book|title=Portable Kisses |url=https://archive.org/details/portablekisseslo00gall |url-access=registration |publisher=Capra Press |year=1992 |isbn= 978-0-88496-342-4}}
• {{cite book|title=My Black Horse|publisher= Bloodaxe|year= 1995|isbn= 978-1-85224-306-7}}
• {{cite book|title=Dear Ghosts (Poetry Finalist for 2007 Washington State Book Award)|publisher= Graywolf Press |year= 2006| isbn= 9781555974435}}
• {{cite book|title=Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=2011| isbn =978-1-55597-597-5}}
• {{cite book|title=Boogie-Woogie Crisscross |last1=Gallagher |first1=Tess |last2=Matsuda |first2=Lawrence |publisher=Madhat, Inc. / Plume Editions|date=March 31, 2016| isbn =978-1941196298}}
• {{cite book|title=Is, Is Not:Poems|publisher=Graywolf Press|year=2019| isbn =978-1-55597-841-9}}

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• {{cite book|title=The Lover of Horses|url=https://archive.org/details/loverofhorsesand00gall|url-access=registration|publisher= Harper & Row|year= 1986|isbn =978-0-06-091435-6}}
• {{cite book|title=At The Owl Woman Saloon|orig-year= 1997|publisher=Simon & Schuster [Scribner]|year=1999|isbn= 978-0-684-84756-6}}
• {{cite book|title=The Man From Kinvara: Selected Stories |publisher=Graywolf Press|year=2009| isbn= 978-1-55597-537-1}}

;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

• {{cite book|title=A concert of tenses: essays on poetry|url=https://archive.org/details/concertoftensese00gall|url-access=registration|publisher= University of Michigan Press|year=1986| isbn= 978-0-472-09370-0}}
• {{cite book|title=Soul Barnacles |publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2003| isbn =978-0-472-08912-3}}

• {{cite book|title="Dostoevsky: A Screenplay" & "King Dog a Screenplay" |publisher=Capra Back-to-Back Series |author=With Raymond Carver|edition= Paperback |date=Dec 1985}}
• Words Like Distant Rain (2006)
• {{cite book|title=Barnacle Soup and Other Stories from the West of Ireland |publisher=Eastern Washington University Press |author=With Josie Gray|date=Jan 2009 |isbn=978-1597660365}}

• {{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxoHFRI6QR4C&pg=PA14 |title=Sudden Journey|journal= The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems| editor =Patrice Vecchione|publisher=Macmillan|year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-8050-6935-8}}

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• [http://library.osu.edu/finding-aids/rarebooks/TessGallagher.doc The Tess Gallagher Literary Archive] at The Ohio State University Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection

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