Grand Rapids, Michigan poet Melissa Wray was born in 1982. She is a graduate of Grand Rapids Community College and studied Health Psychology at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Melissa read with David Cope, alternately reciting work by Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg at the Wealthy Theatre Celebration of Beat Writing in 2008.
She received 2nd prize in the Dyer-Ives 50th anniversary poetry competition for her poem “Iris.” She has been published in Big Scream, Big Hammer, Napalm Health Spa, Gutter Eloquence, Voices, and Display. Small Gestures is her first book.
Melissa Wray
Poet
Books by Melissa Wray
