Gabriel Dunsmith is a poet and musician from Asheville, North Carolina. He holds a B.A. in environmental studies from Vassar College and has lived in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2018.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, Tikkun, Hunger Mountain, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. He is a Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee.
In Iceland, he hosts the monthly reading series Reykjavík Poetics.
His essays and letters have appeared in The Guardian, grist.org, and The New Yorker.
He also plays mountain dulcimer in the traditional Appalachian duo Lonesome Hunter.
photo: Hildegard Hansen