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, Lake Effect, Hunger Mountain, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. He is a Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee.

In Iceland, he hosts events for the reading series Reykjavík Poetics.

In July 2025, he co-hosted “Á Ystu Nöf Minningar / The Edge of Memory,” featuring Kristín Ómarsdóttir and Sölvi Halldórsson, in collaboration with the Icelandic perfumery Fischersund.

In August 2025, he curated “Reykjavík Poetics #20: Far Afield,” featuring Anne Carson and Paul Kane.

He has given readings and performances in Reykjavík and at the annual Magn tímafars festival in South Iceland, as well as collaborated with the artists Claudia Hausfeld and Hannes Lárusson.

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