Kate Gray

In Portland for 25 years, Kate Gray has finally discovered the Arts & Crafts movement. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive came out in 2007 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006) and Where She Goes (2000). She volunteers as a Red Cross disaster relief worker, locally on a disaster action team, and nationally as a caseworker in sheltering. In daylight, she teaches at Clackamas Community College, and in dreams, she writes linebreaks that are blind dove-tails.

BIG NEWS!!! Another Sunset We Survive was selected as a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Poetry Prize, which is one of the Oregon Book Awards! Read more at the Literary Arts. (9/8/08)

Upcoming workshops: Two coming up, one Fall 2009, one Winter 2010. Please see the calendar.

Cedar House Books has released Kate's first full-length book, Another Sunset We Survive (Sept. 2007).

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.