Jan-Henry Gray

Recent Courses

Recent Courses

S/T: Food And Writing

Genre Development Lyric

Writing Poetry

Books

Books

Documents (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2019 Winner of A. Poulin Poetry Prize)

Honors and Accomplishments

Honors and Accomplishments

Kundiman Fellow, 2019

A. Poulin Jr. Prize for Poetry, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018

Undocupoets Fellowship, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017

Lannan Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2015

Juniper Summer Writing Institute Fellowship, 2015

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award,  2014

Graduate Merit Award, Columbia College Chicago, 2014

Community Outreach

Community Outreach

Writers for Migrant Justice, Co-organizer

Organizers: Jan-Henry Gray, Anni Liu, Christopher Soto, and Javier Zamora,

Writers for Migrant Justice hosted more than 40 events nationwide on and around September 4, 2019. The readings raised more than $40K for Immigrant Families Together, a non-profit organization that provides resources and aid to families impacted by their treatment in the US/Mexico border. Press: The Nation, Poets & Writers, i-D, and Washington Square News

Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC), Mentor

ASPC, in partnership with Hyphen Magazine, will publish its second anthology featuring original work by API writers who are incarcerated. These works will be the result of the work by each writer and their mail correspondence with their mentor. 

City Lore’s Homer 2 Hip Hop Program, Teaching Artist

"Homer 2 Hip Hop" is an in-school arts program that engages young people in exploring poetry and oral traditions from diverse cultures around the world, including from their own communities in NYC. The program is made possible by the generous support from the Matisse Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.