Jay McCoy is a Lexington-based writer and visual artist with deep roots in Eastern Kentucky. Currently, he works as a contract writer/editor and medical credentialer/coder. Jay earned his MFA in creative writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. Active in the writing community, he leads Q-munity (a queer writing series) at the Carnegie Center and co-founded the Teen Howl Poetry Series. Jay’s writing has appeared in several anthologies and journals. His chapbook, The Occupation, was published in 2015, and he edited the 2020 Lexington Poetry Month Anthology.