Kelly Gray (she/her/hers)
Where: Among the coast redwoods, nine miles and seven fence posts away from the ocean
Themes: Eco-rage & resiliency, hands, hauntology, intersections between science and lore, speculative justice, prophetic animals, relationship to self and others, queer slugs, fields as constellations
Also: Facilitates poetry classes at the elementary & high school level, love of dry-erase boards and new markers, speculating a just+poetic world with young folks
Always thinking about: Pink foods, fur collars, the sound of grass in October and June, the minutia of body
Did in a past life and maybe still: Union organizer & contract negotiator for public healthcare workers, co-founded the first abortion doula group in the Bay Area, retired raptor handler, Certified California Naturalist, certified death worker, birth educator, attended a bunch of high risk births in Bay Area hospitals as well as home-births, is allergic to small talk except about the weather which she quite enjoys
Can be caught with: A clementine-haired teenager, a talking dog/forest philosopher, and a peach colored cat
Instructions for an Animal Body & Dilapitatia covers are fabric art created by Alabama artist Doug Pierre Baulos
Where: Among the coast redwoods, nine miles and seven fence posts away from the ocean
Themes: Eco-rage & resiliency, hands, hauntology, intersections between science and lore, speculative justice, prophetic animals, relationship to self and others, queer slugs, fields as constellations
Also: Facilitates poetry classes at the elementary & high school level, love of dry-erase boards and new markers, speculating a just+poetic world with young folks
Always thinking about: Pink foods, fur collars, the sound of grass in October and June, the minutia of body
Did in a past life and maybe still: Union organizer & contract negotiator for public healthcare workers, co-founded the first abortion doula group in the Bay Area, retired raptor handler, Certified California Naturalist, certified death worker, birth educator, attended a bunch of high risk births in Bay Area hospitals as well as home-births, is allergic to small talk except about the weather which she quite enjoys
Can be caught with: A clementine-haired teenager, a talking dog/forest philosopher, and a peach colored cat
Instructions for an Animal Body & Dilapitatia covers are fabric art created by Alabama artist Doug Pierre Baulos
