Maria Gray
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, and Nine Syllables Press, among others. She calls on you to commit and recommit yourself to the liberation of Palestine.Past and present editorial work: Gaza Poets Society, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Washington Square Review, COUNTERCLOCK Journal, Snaggletooth Magazine, Black Lawrence Press, and others.instagram
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selected poems
"Matador," "I Was As Dead," Foglifter (forthcoming)
"Sea Level," Brooklyn Poets (republished from ONLY POEMS)
"I May Be Stupid," underblong
"Proof of Life," Epiphany Magazine
"[Years of pelvic floor therapy]," having a poem with you on Instagram (republished from ONLY POEMS)
"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)
interviews
Brooklyn Poets (July 2025)
ONLY POEMS (September 2024)
readings & events
Featured Poet, Brooklyn Poets Staff Picks (2025)
Reader, New York City Poetry Festival with ONLY POEMS (2025)
Moderator, "A Wound That Fights: Poetry for Liberation featuring National Student Poets Program Alumni," Narrative 4 (2024)
Opening Poet, Brooklyn Poets Staff Picks (2024)
Reader, Brooklyn Book Art Fair with SICK magazine (2024)
honors
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)
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