poetry, prose & story

ODER DILAPITATIA TODAY! 

Kelly Gray (she/her) is the author of Instructions for the Animal Body (Moon Tide Press, 2021), Tiger Paw, Tiger Paw, Knife, Knife (Quarter Press, 2022, Gold Medal recipient from IPPY), The Mating Calls //of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, 2023), Our Sodden Bond (MAYDAY Chapbook Prize, 2025), and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025).

Gray's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Boulevard, Cherry Tree, ZYZZYVA, Cream City Review, Salt Hill Journal, Muzzle Magazine, ANMLY, wildness, Southern Humanities Review, Lake Effect, Heavy Feather Review,  Bear Review, Permafrost, Pithead Chapel, and the Northwest Review, among other places. In 2004, she founded Books & Barns, a secret reading series that takes place in busted up barns along the edges of estuaries and meadows. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods and in addition to her four other jobs, teaches poetry in rural public schools.