Jason Gray (poet)

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Jason Gray
BornHibbing, Minnesota [1]
EducationMFA [2]
Alma materOhio State University [2]
Genre Poetry
Website
jason-gray.net

Jason Gray is an American poet whose first book, Photographing Eden, was the winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. [3] [4] His second, Radiation King, won the Idaho Prize for Poetry from Lost Horse Press. Gray's poems have been published in The American Poetry Review , The Kenyon Review , Poetry , and other prominent literary journals. [5] He serves as co-editor of the online journal poetry journal, Unsplendid, [3] [6] and was a 2009 Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. [7]

His other awards and honors include a Walter Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Council for the Arts, and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.

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References

  1. ↑ "Jason Gray". Poets & Writers. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  2. 1 2 "How to Paint the Savior Dead". The Kent State University Press. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  3. 1 2 "Jason Gray". Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  4. ↑ "Photographing Eden: Poems". Ohio University Press / Swallow Press · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  5. ↑ "Online Work". Jason Gray. 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  6. ↑ "An Online Journal of Poetry in Received and Nonce Forms". Unsplendid. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  7. ↑ Meier, Tyler (2009-06-21). "All We Have Is Where We're From « Kenyon Review Blog". www.kenyonreview.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  8. ↑ "Contributors". Kenyon Review . Gambier, Ohio. Fall 2004. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  9. ↑ "The Kent State University Press » Wick Chapbook". www.kentstateuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2018-01-19.


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