Kate Gray

Teaching at Clackamas Community College for 20 years, Kate Gray tends her students’ stories. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 2007. Her unpublished novel, Skin Drag, is an attempt to look at bullying without blinking.

NEWS FLASH: "Swimming in a Thunderstorm," a poem recently published in VoiceCatcher 6 has been nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize.

Another Sunset We Survive was a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Poetry Prize, one of the Oregon Book Awards.

Kate's chapbook, Bone Knowing, won the 2006 Gertrude Press poetry contest, and her first chapbook, Where She Goes, won the 2000 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Kate teaches at Clackamas Community College (Oregon City, OR) and is part of Portland's Dangerous Writing community.