Dean Gessie

DEAN GESSIE ABBREVIATED LITERARY BIOGRAPHY From Anaphora Literary Press, Anna Faktorovich, Director, Ph.D., 1108 W 3rd St. Quanah, TX 79252 Gessie’s poetry is “Genius with a pocketful of broken fetters.” Tongo Eisen-Martin, winner of an American Book Award, a California Book Award and shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Gessie is “one of the finest short story writers in the world.” Henry Stanton, Founding and Managing Editor, the Raw Art Review, Publisher, Uncollected Press, Maryland. “Dean Gessie's scintillating goat song reveals a poet and writer at the height of his powers. Equal parts alchemy, threnody and rebel gospel, [Gessie’s poetry] is a potent protest song to human, animal and planetary suffering.” Anne Casey, poet and writer, winner of multiple international awards, including first prize in the American Writers Review Contest 2021 and winner of the 2021 iWoman Global Award in the field of literature. Dean Gessie is an author and poet who has won dozens of international awards and prizes. Among other honors, Dean won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in England, the Creators of Justice Literary Award from the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, the COP26 Poetry Competition in Scotland, the Samuel Washington Allen Prize in Massachusetts, the UN-aligned Poetry Competition in Finland, the Dr. William Henry Drummond National Poetry Contest in Canada, the Allingham Arts Festival Poetry Contest in Ireland and the Indigo Open Poetry Prize in England. Also in England, Dean was one of twenty international poets included in the Poetry Archive NOW! WorldView Video Anthology. He was also a medal winner in Italy for the Nosside Poetry Prize and published in the 35th World Poetry Prize Anthology and he was twice included in The Best 64 Poets by Black Mountain Press in North Carolina. Elsewhere, Dean won the Enizagam Poetry Contest in California, the Creator Award from the Pathogen Threats Writing Contest in Texas , the Southern Shakespeare Company Sonnet Contest in Florida, the Ageless Authors Poetry Competition in Texas, the Draper’s Guild Short Story Competition in New York, the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the Editors’ Poetry Prize from the Spoon River Poetry Review in Illinois, the Periscope Open Fiction Prize in England, the Angelo Natoli Short Story Award in Australia, the Half and One Literary Prize in India, the Eyelands Book Award in Greece, the short story prize at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in Canada, the Wordsmiths Literary Competition in England and - in Maryland - the Uncollected Press Prize for a short story collection. In addition, Dean was invited to participate in the Truths to Live By: Night of Ideas event sponsored by the Brooklyn Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. Also, Dean won the Bacopa Literary Review Short Story Contest in Florida, the Two Sisters Short Story Contest in New Mexico, the New Millennium & Sunshots Flash Fiction Contest in Tennessee and (twice) the After Dinner Conversation Short Story Competition in Arizona. Dean also won second prize (of 2000+ submissions) in the Short Story Project New Beginnings competition in New York, second prize for the ALCS Tom Gallon Trust Award in England and he was shortlisted (of 2800+ submissions) for the Alpine Fellowship Prize in Sweden. Dean’s collection of short stories - called Anthropocene - won three international awards in addition to runner-up in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Book Festival Competitions. Dean has also published three novellas with Anaphora Literary Press in Texas and his collection of poetry from Uncollected Press, called goat song, won the Seven Hills Literary Contest in Florida for best collection since 2020. Dean's latest work is a novella of social satire called Mummers Eve.