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KELLY GRAY

Selected works 

Forthcoming from...
​The ShoutFlower (Spring) 
Permafrost Magazine (TBA)
Rust & Moth (spring)
Witness Magazine (spring) 
​Portland Review (spring)  
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Quag Daughter, chapbook from Dancing Girl Press (Summer)
Moon T

My Fingers are Whales & Other Stories of Cetology

Written by Kelly Gray, Sound Design by Meredith Johnson

Fiction & Flash


​"Coyote Story"
 
Atticus Review
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2020


"Sylvia"
BULL, 2022

"Never Love a Wild Thing"
Southern Humanities Review, 2022

"Kings of the Hollowed-Out"
Trampset, 2022


"Call Me Kitty" 

Heavy Feather Review, 2023 

"The Sing Song Arch of Spine"
Fatal Flaw
Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2021

"Her Name Was Amy"
3Elements Review
Nominated for Best of the Net, 2021


"The Burden"
Barren Magazine 
Editor's Pick, Issue 19, 2021

"Sleeping with the Glaciers"
Dream Pop, 2022

"How to Skin a Fox"
Lunch Ticket, 2020
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"Welcome to the Playhouse"
Maudlin House, 2020

"Switchblade Serenade"
Parhelion Literary Magazine, 2020

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"The Strangling of the Swan"
Pioneer Town Literary, 2020

"In the Trees"
Dime Show Review, 2020​



Creative Non-fiction


"The Falcon's Cry"
The Account Magazine
Finalist for Best of the Net, 2020

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"
Dressing Foxes"
Superstition Review  
(audio available), 2022

​"
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, 2022

​"
How to Rescue a Bobcat"
Hobart, 2021

"A Picture of a Fox"
Split Rock Review, 2022

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Poetry 

"The History of Glaciers"
Passages North

"The History of Rat King"
Under a Warm Green Linden Press

"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 

"My Father the Race Car Photographer and My Husband the Flower Painter"
Harbor Review, the Forgotten Body Issue
"​The Moth Teachings"
Newfound

"25 Acts of Relentlessness" 
​Moon Tide Press
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021

​"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 Everlasting Eulogy of Lush"
Wild Roof Journal

"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 

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"Child"
​Bear Review

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"Bird Note Poem Winter Roadside"
Literary Mama


"Oh Please"
Northwest Review, Volume 51/01

& Poetry

"Dog Face Love Poem He Calls Me Mama Blue"
Rabid Oak

"On Becoming a Whale"
Bracken Magazine 
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​"Augury"
"Hush of the Switchblade"

Cultural Weekly

"Pulling Bastard"
The Nervous Breakdown

"The Tenderness of Scrautum" 
"The Four Sides of Recipe"

Meat for Tea, Volume 15, Issue 2
Criadilla de Toro


"The Recanting of Ternion"
Opal Literary Journal ​​
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"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

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"Origami Snowflake Winter Prayer"
"Futureless, Past Busted"
"Drive By"
 
​deathcap/Coven Editions

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"Last Story"
Midway Journal 

"The Home of the Seamstress"
Ghost City Press

​"Verismo in Three Parts"
Throats to the Sky (adult content) ​
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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 

Picture
'"raising cow," winner of Barren Magazines 2021 October Poetry Contest, theme: The Haunted 
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