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
,
Appalachian Heritage
,
Collateral
,
Consequence
,
Good Men Project
,
Grey Sparrow Journal
,
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