Selected works
Forthcoming from...
Permafrost Magazine, Lake Effect, and Storm Cellar
Quag Daughter, chapbook from Dancing Girl Press (Autumn)
The Mating Calls of the Specter, winner of the Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, judged by Justin Phillip Reed (Autumn)
Kenyon Review Workshop Participant (Summer, 2023)
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Permafrost Magazine, Lake Effect, and Storm Cellar
Quag Daughter, chapbook from Dancing Girl Press (Autumn)
The Mating Calls of the Specter, winner of the Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, judged by Justin Phillip Reed (Autumn)
Kenyon Review Workshop Participant (Summer, 2023)
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My Fingers are Whales & Other Stories of Cetology
Written by Kelly Gray, Sound Design by Meredith Johnson
Written by Kelly Gray, Sound Design by Meredith Johnson
Fiction & Flash
"Coyote Story" Atticus Review, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
"Sylvia" BULL
"Never Love a Wild Thing" Southern Humanities Review
"Kings of the Hollowed-Out" Trampset
"Call Me Kitty" Heavy Feather Review
"The Sing Song Arch of Spine" Fatal Flaw,
Nominated for Best Small Fictions
"Her Name Was Amy" 3Elements Review,
Nominated for Best of the Net
"The Burden" Barren Magazine, Editor's Pick, Issue 19
"Sleeping with the Glaciers" Dream Pop
"How to Skin a Fox" Lunch Ticket
"Welcome to the Playhouse" Maudlin House
"Switchblade Serenade" Parhelion Literary Magazine
"The Strangling of the Swan" Pioneer Town Literary,
"In the Trees" Dime Show Review
Creative Non-fiction
"Drive Me Home"
The Portland Review
"The Falcon's Cry"
The Account Magazine
Finalist for Best of the Net
"Dressing Foxes"
Superstition Review
(audio available)
"Tell Me how to Build an Audience while You Move Your Arms and Legs like Serpents and Scarves in the Dark of a Cattle Ranch"
Cleaver Magazine
"How to Rescue a Bobcat"
Variant Lit
"A Picture of a Fox"
Split Rock Review
"Writing Lightly, The Metabolic Rate of a Story," Craft Essay for Split Rock Review
The Portland Review
"The Falcon's Cry"
The Account Magazine
Finalist for Best of the Net
"Dressing Foxes"
Superstition Review
(audio available)
"Tell Me how to Build an Audience while You Move Your Arms and Legs like Serpents and Scarves in the Dark of a Cattle Ranch"
Cleaver Magazine
"How to Rescue a Bobcat"
Variant Lit
"A Picture of a Fox"
Split Rock Review
"Writing Lightly, The Metabolic Rate of a Story," Craft Essay for Split Rock Review
Poetry
"A Note on Sex and Death on the Beach" Passages North, Issue 44, Winner, Neutrino Short-Short Prize "Know the Origins of My Eat" Scavengers Lit Best of the Net Nomination "The History of Glaciers" Passages North, Issue 43 "The History of Rat King" Under a Warm Green Linden Press "My Father the Race Car Photographer and My Husband the Flower Painter" Harbor Review "The History of Flowers that Eat Meat" Pithead Chapel "The History of Spindle Cells" Passengers Journal "The History of a Window Overlooking the Wetlands" MAYDAY Magazine "The History of Brother" "The History of Fire and Black Eyes" Bird Coat Quarterly "Atwater" Menacing Hedge "Sick like a" "I Took a Thousand Pictures of You" "Frog Baroque for a Girl King" Gone Lawn "Dog Face Love Poem He Calls Me Mama Blue" Rabid Oak "On Becoming a Whale" Bracken Magazine "Augury" "Hush of the Switchblade" Cultural Weekly "Pulling Bastard" The Nervous Breakdown "The Home of the Seamstress" Ghost City Press "The Art of It" StoneCoast Review "Resurrection" "Restoration" Wildroof Journal |
"The Problem I am Having is that Dying can be So Loud with Death So Quiet" Witness Magazine, Runner-up 2023 Literary Awards "My Grandmother was Once a Girl" Rust & Moth "The Moth Teachings" Newfound "Oh Please" Northwest Review, Volume 51/01 "I am a Dead Wolf Talking to Boys" Pithead Chapel "Cetology" The Inflectionist Review "We Died by Folktale in Three Parts" "The Fawn" Pretty Owl Poetry "The Fish as Healer" The Normal School "Pretty In Pink" Driftwood Press "I Have Asked for a Great Space to See Many Things" Unbroken #34 "Brain Tremors are so Fucking Cliche" Grimoire "Child" Bear Review "Bird Note Poem Winter Roadside" Literary Mama "The Everlasting Eulogy of Lush" Wild Roof Journal When I Said You are Dead to Me, What I Meant is that I Love You Stone Circle Review "The Hart" RiverTeeth "Celebration of Vultures" Bracken Magazine "In the Beginning There was Eagle Sex" "The Unfinding of Me" "The Salt Flats" Cathexis Northwest Press "Last Story" Midway Journal "Birdhouse" River Heron Review |
Anthologies & Zines
Beat Not Beat, California Poets Anthology
Dead of Winter Anthology, Milk&Cake Press
Dead Muse Mythologies, a Zine
Stone Gathering Anthology
Sh!t Men Say to Me, an Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity
Dead of Winter Anthology, Milk&Cake Press
Dead Muse Mythologies, a Zine
Stone Gathering Anthology
Sh!t Men Say to Me, an Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity
'"raising cow," winner of Barren Magazines 2021 October Poetry Contest, theme: The Haunted