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 Chapbook Prize, 2025), and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Boulevard, ZYZZYVA, ANMLY, and Cherry Tree, among other places. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods and, in addition to her four other jobs, teaches poetry to rural folks in rural places.