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KELLY GRAY
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From L.I. Henley's Paper Dolls & Books, inspired by "Instructions for an Animal Body."
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Awards

​Recipient of: 
Neutrino Award, Passages North, 2022
ArtSurround Cohort Grant, Creative Sonoma, 2022


From Passages North: Congratulations to Kelly Gray, the winner of this year’s Neutrino Short-Short Prize for her story, “A Note on Sex and Death on the Beach.”
Final judge jj peña on the winning story: "I love flash that makes you feel like you’ve reached into an open mouth & pulled out a whisper. What lingers: the ecstasy of love, the truths we find in nature, the silences in joy, how our bodies are always thrashing—a dance that we hope carries beyond us. I haven’t been able to stop hearing the living in this piece & that’s exactly what the story desires, for our remains to be beautiful,to persist, to speak. Truly fantastic."


Finalist for: 
Witness Literary Awards for Poetry, Witness Magazine, Runner Up, 2023
Best of the Net, The Falcon's Cry, The Account, 2020
Diagram's Chapbook Contest, 2021
MAYDAY's Chapbook Contest, 2022

Nominations:
Pushcart Prize by Atticus Review 
Pushcart Prize by Quarter Press
Pushcart Prize by Moon Tide Press 
Best of the Net by 3Elements Review 
Best Small Fictions by Fatal Flaw 



Reviews, Interviews & Such 


Review in Cultural Daily
by Risa Denenberg

Review in Rain Taxi Review
by Ralph Pennel 

A NORMAL Interview with Shelby Pinkham 
The Normal School

Underwater Storytelling, an Interview with Kelly Gray and Meredith Johnson 
MAYDAY Magazine 

Emilee Kinney Reviews My Fingers Are Whales and other stories of Cetology
The Inflectionist Review

Terra Emmerson Reviews Instructions for an Animal Body
The Inflectionist Review 

Interview with Kathleen Florence 
ARTEIDOLIA

Sonoma Sound Craft Interview 
Sonoma County Library 

Wild Roof Journal Roundtable
In discussion on Issue Ten

In Her Own Words, Featured Artist
Made Local Magazine

Good Grief: The Power of Harnessing Collective Trauma and Healing
​Sonoma County Gazette 

Wild Roof Journal Podcast, discussion of Everlasting Eulogy of Lush 
Episode #8 

Moon Tide Press Quartet Reading Series 
Fall Edition 2020

An Interview   
Cathexis Northwest Press


When the Shooter Comes: Instructions for My Daughter 
Quiet Lightning Poetry Reading at The Old Devil Moon, SF 

Pretty Owl Poetry Reading
Hosted by White Whale Books, Pittsburg
  • Welcome
  • Selected Works
  • Awards, Reviews, Interviews
  • Books
  • Workshops
  • Changing Bodies, Changing Landscapes
  • LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  • About
  • Contact