Kelly Gray (she/her/hers) is a writer, playwright, and educator in rural Northern California on occupied Coast Miwok land. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, Pithead Chapel, Hobart, Under a Warm Green Linden, The Normal School, Barren Magazine, Lunch Ticket and elsewhere. She is the author of Instructions of an Animal Body and the chapbook My Fingers are Whales and other stories of Cetology. She was a finalist for Best of the Net in 2020 and her first play, Beautiful Monsters, was produced by Left Edge Theater and ran at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in the summer of 2021.