writing
An Emerging Writer in Roxane Gay's The Audacity
A 2023 Literary Fellow for the Mississippi Arts Commission
proud flesh
debut memoir
"I could not put this book down. Gray draws us close as she finds a new map for herself and lays bare a fresh vibrant narrative for mothers, women and anyone who has dared to fully look at the scars of the past."
-Molly Caro May, author of Body Full of Stars
As Seen In:
published essays
"Proud Flesh," selected by Roxane Gay
Emerging Writer Series, The Audacity (2023)
"The Skin Bridge," The Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape (2023)
"To the Two Mississippi Boys I Birthed," The Bitter Southerner (2019)
"If My Son's Going to Be From Mississippi," The Bitter Southerner (2018)
With writing that is brutal and beautiful, she writes of motherhood and womanhood, and beyond that, of personhood, in ways that are
cutting and gorgeous."
- abigail rose clarke, returning home to our bodies
the blog
unsilenced woman
I began sharing my writing after the birth of my first son. Here you can read my early explorations of how new motherhood stirred up prior trauma amidst the political climate of 2016 in Mississippi. My personal and collective contemplations intersect, such as in my viral essay "A Letter to My White Son". Stories of mothering, daughtering, partnering, bodying.
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