Elizabeth T Gray Jr

Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. is a poet, critic, translator, and corporate consultant. Poetry collections include After the Operation (Four Way Books 2025), the long poem Salient (New Directions 2020), and Series | India (Four Way Books 2015). Recent translations include Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season, selected poems of Iran’s iconic modern woman poet Forough Farrokhzad (New Directions 2022), a finalist for the 2023 PEN Prize for Poetry in Translation, and The Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Dwan of Hafiz, 30th Anniversary Edition (Monkfish 2024), translations of classical Persian poet Hafiz (d. 1389). She was the founder and CEO of boutique corporate consulting firms Conflict Management, Inc. and Alliance Management Partners LLC. She serves on the Boards of Kimbilio Fiction, Friends of Writers, The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, and of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran. She holds a BA and JD from Harvard University.