Born March 9, 1939 in Albany NY (Gail Evelyn Sherrell)
Married to Walter Dusenbery 1961-1969 (Gail Dusenbery)
1969-present: Gail Chiarello (sometimes spelled Gail Chiarrello)
Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1956-1959)
University of California, Berkeley (1962-1963) AB 1963
University of California, Berkeley (1973-1974) PhD Program in English. No degree.
University of California, Berkeley (1977-1979) MCP Master of City Planning 1979
Honors/Awards
National Merit Scholar Finalist 1956
Phi Beta Kappa Theta Chapter, Cornell University 1959
Guilford Essay Prize, Cornell University 1959
Elizabeth Mills Crothers Short Story Award, First Prize, University of California, Berkeley 1963
Woodrow Wilson Alternate 1963
Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Award 1965
Grove Press Scholarship to the Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965
NEA Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Grant for San Francisco Earthquake 1967
Books Published
The Mark (Poems), Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1967. (Gail Dusenbery)
The Bhangra Dance (Poems), Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1970. (Gail Chiarrello)
Books/Magazined Edited
The San Francisco Earthquake, A Magazine of the Arts, San Francisco. Co-founder and editor with Jan Herman, 1967-1968
Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1972 (Gail Chiarrello, editor)
Malvina Reynolds, Not In Ourselves Nor In Our Stars, Either (with Gail Chiarrello), Schroder Publishing Company, Berkeley, CA 1975.
Poems in Magazines
Poems published in: Wild Dog, Cow, Poetry (Chicago), Free Poems Among Friends, The San Francisco Earthquake, VDRSVP, Colloquy, Aldebaran Review, R. C. Lion, Akzente (Munich)
Poems in anthologies
Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace & Gladness (Doug Palmer & Tove Neville, eds.), Berkeley, CA 1966
Out of the War Shadow, An Anthology of Current Poetry (Denise Levertov, ed.), War Resisters Leaue Press, NY 1967
Remember Our Fire: Poetry by Women (Alta, ed.), Shameless Hussy Press 1969
31 New American Poets (Ron Schreiber, ed.), Hill & Wang, NY 1969
Possibilities of Poetry (Richard Kostelanetz, ed.), Dell Publishing Co., New York 1970
Live Poetry (Kathleen Koppell, ed.), Holt Rinehart & Winston, NY 1971
Year of Dog (Georgia Gojmerac and Kelly Lee, eds.), Year of Dog Press, Putney, VT 1972
Peace & Pieces: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, San Francisco, 1973
City Lights Anthology, City Lights Books, San Francisco 1974
Biographical Citations
Contemporary Poets of the English Language, St. James Press, London
The World's Who's Who of Authors, Cambridge, England
Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England
Other Bio-Bits
Father Libertario Chiarello born June 5, 1908 San'Arica, Italy; died, July 15, 2007, Webster, New York
Claude Pelieu, OPAL U.S.A., Beach Books, San Francisco, 1968 (Character of "Opal")
City Lights Books, Editorial Assistant to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1969-1970
Other Activities/Employment
Medical/scientific grants management (University of Washington, Cornell University Medical College, Graduate Hospital, Mid-Atlantic Regional Human Genetics Network) 1983-2004
Friends of Magnuson Park (FOMP) Board of Directors and Chair Political Outreach 2003-2005: Halt bulldozing of Seattle's Warren G. Magnuson Park
46th Legislative District Democrats Washington State: Executive Board Member, Demogram Editor 2002-2004, Treasurer 2005-2006, Precinct Committee Officer 2002-present
Seattle City Council Candidate Semi-Finalist January 2006
Progressive Democratic Caucus of Washington 46th District (PDCW46) Founding Member
Hawthorne Hills Community Council, Trustee and Hawthorne Holler Editor, 2005-present
