Gregory Fraser is an American poet.
Gregory Fraser is an American poet, editor, and professor. He is the author of four poetry collections: Strange Pietà, Answering the Ruins, Designed for Flight, and Little Armageddon. He is also the co-author, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything, and the co-editor, with Susannah Mintz, of Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography. Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs, and earned a B.A. at Ursinus College, an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The New Yorker,[1] The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser teaches at the University of West Georgia, located an hour west of Atlanta, and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review. He also writes songs with the folk-rock group The Ties That Bind, featuring Anthony and Brittney Baxter, and plays drums for the Americana band Adamson Avenue, fronted by Jason Kesler.
