Maria Gray

Maria Gray is a poet from Portland, Oregon. Her work appears in Best New Poets, The Columbia Review, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and others, and she has received honors and fellowships from organizations including poetry.onl, The Lumiere Review, The Adroit Journal, Bates College, and New York University. She is the Managing Editor of COUNTERCLOCK Journal and an Assistant Web Editor at Washington Square Review and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an MFA candidate in creative writing at NYU.writing
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Maria sits in a park mid-laugh. She has dark brown shoulder length hair and is wearing overalls and an off-white T-shirt.

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prose

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honors

  • Finalist, 2024 poetry.onl Chapbook Series Fellowship: "Boomerang" (2023)

  • Longlisted, Surging Tide Mag Annual Summer Writing Contest: "Room Temperature" (2023)

  • Recipient, John Tagliabue Award for Creative Writing (Bates College, 2023)

  • Recipient, NYU Creative Writing Program Departmental Poetry Fellowship (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 Writing Contest: "Rhythm 0" (2022)

  • Semifinalist, Adroit Prizes for Poetry: "Where Were You When Mac Miller Died" (2021)

  • Recipient, Alice Jane Dinsmore Wandke Award (Bates College, 2019)