Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. - Board Secretary
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. is a poet, translator, and corporate consultant. Her long poem, “Salient”, was published by New Directions in 2020. Recent work includes the poetic sequence Series | “India” (Four Way Books, 2015) and translations from classical Persian, Wine & Prayer: “Eighty Ghazals of Hafiz of Shiraz” (White Cloud Press, 2019). She has served as Guest Editor for Epiphany and The New Haven Review and currently serves on the Boards of Friends of Writers, Kimbilio, The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, and of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran (Washington, DC). She holds a BA and JD from Harvard University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. You can learn more about her here.
Featured Work
After the Operation
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s After the Operation reports from the No Man’s Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been taken out of your skull? “An uninhabited coast,” or “all shatter and thoroughfare”? These spare poems interweave medical documents, journal entries, and memories, assembling a polyvocal chorus to document the surgery itself and the recuperation process.
