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Margaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida. She is the author of GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions, 2023) which won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and was 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, Best New Poets 2021, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. A winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a shortlister for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize (UK), she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and teaches in New Jersey. She’s on BlueSky @mbrrray, and on Instagram @m_rrray.
Good Grief, the Ground will be out April 11th from BOA Editions.
Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic is out from the Poetry Society of America.