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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 the following Awards, Grants, and Juried Workshops: 
  • Kenyon Review’s Juried Workshop in Poetry (Summer, 2023), taught and mentored by Tina Cane (Poet Laureate of Rhode Island) and Anthony Cody (American Book Award, Whiting Award)
  • Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize for “The Mating Calls //of the// Specter”, 2023, selected by Justin Phillip Reed (National Book Award, Lambda Award)
  • MAYDAY Chapbook Prize, 2024
  • Gold Medal, Independent Publishing Book Award, Outstanding Design, for “Tiger Paw, Tiger Paw, Knife, Knife,” 2023
  • Neutrino Award, Passages North, 2022, judged by jj peña
  • ArtSurround Cohort Grant, 2022, Creative Sonoma
  • Witness Literary Awards for Poetry, Witness Magazine, 2nd Place, 2023, judged by Nabila Lovelace 
  • Finalist, Best of the Net, The Falcon's Cry, The Account, 2020
  • Finalist, Diagram's Chapbook Contest, 2021
  • Finalist, MAYDAY's Chapbook Contest, 2022
  • Finalist, Two Sylvia’s Press, Chapbook Prize, 2023 & 2024


Reviews, Interviews & Such 

Obsessed with Obsession: A Review of Dilapitatia
by Allegra Wilson for Bear Review

Kelly Gray's Dilapitatia 
by Miranda Dennis for LunaLuna Magazine

David Cazden's Review of Dilapitatia 
Action, Spectacle 

Review in Cultural Daily
by Risa Denenberg

Review in Rain Taxi Review
by Ralph Pennel 

Antiphony Journal: On the Things that Haunt Us & the Ways We Haunt

Interview with Shilo Niziolek

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 

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


  • Welcome
  • Selected Works
  • Books
  • Books & Barns
  • Workshops
  • Tongue of the Mushroom
  • Changing Bodies, Changing Landscapes
  • About