Margaret Ray’s second book, Practical Effects, is forthcoming as a 2026 National Poetry Series winner, selected by Chen Chen for Penguin
Margaret is the author of Good Grief, the Ground (BOA Editions, 2023, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize selected by Stephanie Burt, shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award) and the chapbook Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic (2022, selected by Jericho Brown for the 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Prize).
Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A shortlister for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize (UK), she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She grew up in Gainesville, Florida.
You can find her on BlueSky @mbrrray, and on Instagram @m_rrray.