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
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