Book Launch with Poet Kelly Gray

Kelly Gray is the author of Instructions for an Animal Body (Moon Tide Press, 2021), The Mating Calls//of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, 2023), Our Sodden Bond (MAYDAY Poetry Prize, 2025), and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025) and is the recipient of the Neutrino Prize from Passages North and the ArtSurround Cohort Grant. Gray’s work can be found in Witness: A Magazine of the Black Mountain Institute, Cream City Review, ANMLY, Rust & Moth, Cherry Tree, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods, nine miles and seven fence posts away from the ocean, and, in addition to her four other jobs, teaches poetry in rural public schools.

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