Maria Gray
is a Thomas Hunter Fellow in Poetry at Hunter College in New York City. Her work is forthcoming from or published in Best New Poets, ONLY POEMS, Foglifter, SPACE Gallery's 2024 Poetry Hotline, and more. She was longlisted for ONLY POEMS' Poet of the Year Prize in 2024 and 2025, and she has received additional honors from The Adroit Journal, poetry.onl, Nine Syllables Press, and Game Over Books, among others. She encourages you to visit lifeline4gaza!instagram
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selected poems
"Matador," "I Was As Dead," Foglifter (forthcoming)
"Sea Level," Brooklyn Poets (republished from ONLY POEMS)
"Proof of Life," Epiphany Magazine
"Drone Among Birds," A Poem is a Garden, independently distributed by Laetitia Keok
"Target Practice," SPACE Gallery 2024 Poetry Hotline
"Where Were You When Mac Miller Died," Best New Poets 2022 (republished from Snaggletooth Magazine)
honors
Longlist, Game Over Books Open Reading Period (2025)
Longlist (Top 50), ONLY POEMS, Poet of the Year Prize (2025)
Semifinalist, Nine Syllables Press, Chapbook Contest (2024)
Nominee, Best Spiritual Literature, ONLY POEMS: "Light Being Light" (2024)
Longlist (Top 30), ONLY POEMS, Poet of the Year Prize (2024)
Semifinalist, The Adroit Journal, Djanikian Scholars in Poetry (2024)
Finalist, poetry.onl, 2024 Chapbook Series Fellowship (2023)
Longlist, surging tide mag, Annual Summer Writing Contest (2023)
Recipient, Bates College, John Tagliabue Award for Creative Writing (2023)
Nominee, Best of the Net: The Lumiere Review, Ice Lolly Review, COUNTERCLOCK Journal (2022)
Finalist and contributor, Best New Poets: "Where Were You When Mac Miller Died" (2022)
Winner, The Lumiere Review, Open Writing Contest: "Rhythm 0" (2022)
Semifinalist, The Adroit Journal, Adroit Prizes for Poetry: "Where Were You When Mac Miller Died" (2021)
Recipient, Bates College, Alice Jane Dinsmore Wandke Award (2019)