Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet from Evanston, Illinois. His work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Sewanee Review, Gulf Coast, and New England Review, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Kenyon Review, and Tin House. He is the author of MY LOVE IS WATER, a verse drama forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2025, and FEEBLE, winner of the 2024 Poetry Online Chapbook Series Fellowship. He received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, and assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Journal.