D.A. Gray

Poet

Copperas Cove, TX

Texas US

Website:

www.dagray.net

Twitter/X:

@dagray08

Author's Bio

D.A. Gray’s poetry collection, Contested Terrain, was published by FutureCycle Press in October 2017. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Wrath-Bearing Tree, Rise Up Review, Rattle: Poets Respond, Still: The Journal, Saint Katherine Review, Consequence and The Windhover among other journals. Gray holds an MFA from The Sewanee School of Letters and an MS from Texas A&M-Central Texas. Retired soldier and veteran, the author writes, teaches and lives in Central Texas.

Education:

Sewanee School of Letters MFA

Writers Retreats:

Hambidge Creative Residency Program

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Southern Poetry Anthology VIII (Texas A&M University Press, 2018)

Proud to Be (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2014)

Books:

Contested Terrain (FutureCycle Press, 2017)

Overwatch (Grey Sparrow Press, 2011)

Journals:

94 Creations

Consequence

Kentucky Review

Poetry Salzburg Review

Saint Katherine Review

The Sewanee Review

Snow Jewel

Spark: A Creative Anthology

Still

The Wrath-Bearing Tree

Veterans Writing Project

Voices de la Luna

War, Literature and the Arts

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Louise Erdrich James McBride Jim Harrison Gary Snyder Patricia Smith Jericho Brown Jack Gilbert Elizabeth Bishop

What I'm reading now:

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum, The Dead Peasants' Handbook by Brian Turner

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Cincinnati

Raised in:

Bowling Green, KY

Kentucky

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Last update: Dec 12, 2023