Kelly Erin Gray is a writer and poet from New England. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Hobart, Maudlin House, Expat, The Shore, and Stone Circle Review, among others. Her writing is primarily interested in questions of desire and crisis, and she is currently working on her first novel on longing and loneliness in the 2020 quarantine summer titled Bottle Episode.

As a Ph.D. candidate in English at Boston College, she was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching. She is completing her dissertation on contemporary environmental literature and Lacanian theory.

She lives in Boston with her cat Darling who is, indeed, darling.