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Kate Gray [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Mosier, OR
Oregon US
Email: 
dangpoet@gmail.com
Bio: 

Kate Gray’s passion comes as a teacher, writing coach, and a volunteer writing facilitator with women inmates. For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems has been recently published by Widow & Orphan House in 2019. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive (Cedar House Books, 2007) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006), winner of the Gertrude Press Poetry Prize and Where She Goes (2000), winner of the Blue Light Chapbook Prize. Kate’s first novel, Carry the Sky, (Forest Avenue, 2014) stares at bullying without blinking. Over the years she’s been awarded residencies at Hedgbrook, Norcroft, and Soapstone, and a fellowship from the Oregon Literary Arts. Her poetry and essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. In Any More, Black Shoe, Kate Gray’s novel-in-progress, she narrates, in Sylvia Plath’s voice, what led to The Bell Jar and her suicide attempt in 1953. Kate and her partner live in a purple house in Portland, Oregon with their impetuous dog.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Sharon, CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
Sharon, CT
Connecticut
Website: 
https://kategraywrites.com [2]
Education: 
University of Washington, Seattle
Writers Retreats: 
Portland Book Festival
Storyknife Writers Retreat
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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