Ed Go

Poet

Brooklyn, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer and educator raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut; he earned a GED from the State of Connecticut in 1988, an AA in Liberal Arts from Three Rivers Community College in 1998, a BA in English from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2003, an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College in 2005 and an MA in Teaching English from Brooklyn College in 2016. A former grocery and video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer, mystery shopper, college lecturer, adult education instructor and lead singer/guitar-player in a punk-folk band, Ed Go is a chaotic good, ex-catholic, pseudo-anarchist, quasi-existentialist, amateur pataphysicist, Star Wars devotee and cancer survivor who currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He also writes poems.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Hear We Are: A Rhapsody in View (Rogue Scholars Press, 2024)
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Maintenant 17 (Three Rooms Press, 2023)
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Arriving as a Shoreline (Great weather for MEDIA, 2022)
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After The Clouds, The Sun (Rogue Scholars Press, 2021)
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Evidence of Fetus Diversity (Locofo Chaps, 2018)
Chapbooks:
Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id (Other Rooms Press, 2014)
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de-luminations (Other Rooms Press, 2009)
Journals:
Boston Poet
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Brooklyn Review
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filling Station
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Hinchas de Poesia
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Medicinal Purposes
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Other Rooms
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Otoliths
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Rogue Agent
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Summer Stock
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TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
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The Canary
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Underground Voices

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
New Bedford, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Newport News, Kodiak, Honolulu & Groton
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Last update: May 05, 2024