Poet, journalist Ethan Gilsdorf presents a reading of his poetry

Gilsdorf received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 1992, and a B.A. in Media, Film and Communications/Writing from Hampshire College in 1989. He is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe (Travel, Movies, Living/Arts, Ideas, Sunday Magazine, Books, Life at Home, Op-ed pages), the San Francisco Chronicle (book critic), The Grapevine (Reykjavik, Iceland; travel writer), The Improper Bostonian (travel, lifestyle, dining), The Common Review (as their East Coast correspondent) and Get Lost (as a contributing editor).

His other publications include the National Geographic Traveler, Psychology Today, Fodor's travel guides (former Paris hotel correspondent), Time Out (former film, theater and restaurant critic), The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Prague Literary Review, New York Post, Poets & Writers, Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, Paris Notes, The Walrus (Toronto), The Citizen (Ottawa), Globe and Mail (Toronto), France Magazine (DC), Maisonneuve (Montreal), Australian Financial Review, The Sunday Post (Glasgow), The Herald (Scotland), The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), Emirates Inflight Magazine (United Arab Emirates), One magazine, Go (Airtrain inflight magazine), Cleveland Plain Dealer, Buffalo News, St Petersburg (Florida) Times, Colorado Independent (Colorado Springs), New Orleans Times-Picayune, Weekly Dig (Boston), Reno (NV) News and Review, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC), and the Literary Review of Canada.

The winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition and the Esmé Bradberry Contemporary Poets Prize, Gilsdorf has been awarded a grant from the Vermont Arts Council (1999) and residencies at the Millay Colony (2005), the Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education (Vermont/USA, 2004), the New Pacific Studio (New Zealand, 2005-06) and Vermont Studio Center (Vermont/USA, 1999). His poems can be seen in Poetry, The Southern Review, The North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Poetry London, plus anthologies like Future Welcome; Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry; Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades; Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless; and In the Criminal's Cabinet. Gilsdorf was also the Paris regional coordinator for Poets For Peace/United Poets Coalition. He is co-founder of Grub Street's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) in Boston.

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