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Faculty and Staff
Juliana A. Gray
Associate Professor English
Alfred University Contact Info
Office Location: Seidlin Hall 211
Department: English Department  
Phone: 607.871.2280  
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Education
B.A.: English, minors in history and creative writing
University of Alabama, 1994

M.A.: English and Creative Writing
University of Tennessee, 1997

Ph.D.: English and Creative Writing
University of Cincinnati, 2001
Background
Selected Publications

Poetry: Books
"The Man Under My Skin," River City Publications, Montgomery, AL, 2005

Poetry: Chapbooks
"History in Bones," winner of Kent State University Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition, Kent State University Press, 2001
"Human Engines," limited edition chapbook, forthcoming from Aralia Press

Poetry: Journals
"Why My Younger Sister Has More Gray Hair than I." forthcoming from Sou'wester
"Young," "Separation in Storm" and "The Witness." Poetry East, No. 54, spring 2005.
"Mississippi Scene." The Louisville Review, Vol. 55-56, spring and fall 2004.
"The Man Under Your Skin." Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, winter 2004.
"Kudzu." The Formalist, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2003.
"Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop." Blackbird (www.blackbird.vcu.edu), Nov. 2003.
"To a Five-Cent Package of Writing Paper." Nebo, 2002.
"Panty Thief" and "The Panty Thief in Jail." Yalobusha Review, Vol. VI, 2000.
"Noccalula Falls." Alabama Literary Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, spring 2000.
"Speaking for the Moon." Sewanee Theological Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2000.
"Venison." New Orleans Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, winter 1999/2000.
"Metropolis." Gulf Stream, No. 15, 1999.
"Here there be monsters" and "Dao, sans Dwin." NewDelta Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999.
"Loving the Knife" and "The Kindest Way to Kill a Lobster." RiverCity, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1999.
"Lightning Bugs." Blueline, Vol. XIX, 1998.
"Group Photo." SUNDOG: The Southeast Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1998.
"Haircuttings." Yemassee, Vol. V, No. 2, 1998.
"She-Turtle's Grave" and "Lesson." Limestone. 1996.

Poetry: Anthologies
"Hawk & Clay," "King Cotton," "Peaches." Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe: The Alumni Grill. MacAdam/Cage, 2005.
"Shrimpers" and "Ghosts in Blue and Gray." Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III, MacAdam/Cage, 2004.
"Crossings." All Around Us: Poems from the Valley, Emerald Press, 1996.

Nonfiction
"My Soldier," creative nonfiction essay. River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Vol. 6, No. 2, spring 2005
"Willodene," creative nonfiction essay, Cornbread Nation 2: The Best of Southern Food Writing, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
"No Wonder Your Paper's So Short!", creative nonfiction essay, Pass/Fail: 32 Stories About Teaching. Red Sky Books, Kleidon Publishing, Inc., 2001. Interview with Wyatt Prunty, Sewanee Writers' Conference internet site, www.sewaneewriters.org, July 2001.
Interview with Wyatt Prunty, 2000 Novel and Short Story Writers Guide. Interview with Erin McGraw and Jessica Strand, 1999 Guide to Literary Agents.



Presentations

Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2005
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2005
Lemuria Books, Jackson, Miss., August 2004
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2004
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2004
Huntingdon College, Rhode Coleman Ellison Writers' Festival, Nov. 2003
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2003
University of Cincinnati, May 2003
Arkansas Tech University, Nov. 2002
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2002
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2002
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2001
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2001
University of Cincinnati, October 2000
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2000
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 2000
Sewanee Writers' Conference, University of the South, July 1999
Academic paper, "Puig's Spider Woman," presented at Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1997.

Honors and Awards

Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for best poem to appear in Southern Humanities Review in 2004.
Wick Poetry Chapbook competition winner, Kent State University, 2001.
Winner, second place, Elliston/Strauss/Lanzit Prize in Poetry, University of Cincinnati, 2001.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2001.
Ricking Graduate Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2000-2001.
Winner, honorable mention, Elliston/Strauss/Lanzit Prize in Poetry, University of Cincinnati, 2000.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2000.
Elliston/Lanzit Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2000.
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, summer 1999.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 1999.
Winner, first place, University of Tennessee Women's Coordinating Council
Short Story and Poetry Contest, graduate poetry division, 1996. Award presented by Gloria Naylor.
Scholarship, American Council for the Arts Ruth Lilly Poetry Convocation, University of Indiana, 1994.
Phi Beta Kappa