Jason Gray

Poet

Durham, NC
North Carolina US
Email: 
jasonmatthewgray@gmail.com
Website: 
jason-gray.net
Twitter/X: 
@jasonmgray

Author's Bio

Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, as well as two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems have been featured in Poetry, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Image, and elsewhere. 

Education: 
Ohio State University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Next of Us Is About to Be Born (Kent State University Press, 2009)
,
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Ohio University Press, 2009)
Books:
Radiation King (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
,
Photographing Eden (Ohio University Press, 2008)
Chapbooks:
How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State University Press, 2007)
,
Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003)
Prizes won: 

Idaho Prize for Poetry; Hollis Summers Prize for First Book of Poetry; Wick Chapbook Prize; Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference; Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Council for the Arts

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Veterans
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Hibbing, MN
Minnesota
Raised in: 
Oceanside, CA
California
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Last update: May 21, 2019