Gregory Tate (CA)

Gregory Tate H68500
Salinas Valley State Prison
P. O. Box 1050
Soledad, CA 93960-1050

Gregory Tate is an aspiring writer from Oakland, California, who has been incarcerated since 1988 for Robbery Murder. He was sentenced to death in 1993 and is currently on his second appeal, called habeas corpus. While incarcerated, he started writing urban novels (completing eight), as well as 600 poems, essays and short stories. While on Death Row, he got into the GED School Program and earned his GED, making up for having quit Fremont High School in Oakland in the fourth month of the 11th grade. He is currently continuing his education through the Distance Learning Program at San Quentin Prison, where he is one class (Algebra) away from finishing his Associate of Arts degree in Social and Behavioral Science, and an Associate of Science degree in Business, which he hopes to finish in the Spring of 2021. Gregory was featured in the soul-shattering 2012 anthology, “This Side of My Struggle” by Dr. Nandi S. Crosby, Sociology Professor at the California State University, Chico. He is currently in the process of publication of several of his books, which will be published through Korsgaard Publishing. His poem “Pop-Pop” and an excerpt from his book, Hard Knocks, Old School, were featured in Big Time Publishing Magazine.