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Davi Gray (she/they)

Photo of Davi Gray; she's wearing a bright red cardigan over a baby blue dress with white leggings, and shoulder-length blond hair. She is seated at a table, striped with shadow and sunlight.

Pronunciation: “Davi” rhymes with “gravy”

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Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, and activist. She lives in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis).

Davi has work in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere; her first collection, This Body, This Fruit, is due out in February 2027 (Trio House Press).

Longer bio (114 words)

Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, multihyphenate artist, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis), on unceded lands of the Dakota and Ojibwe, where she works through the ReEntry Lab to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration with literary and arts communities ready to receive them.

Davi has work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere, and can often be found performing around the Twin Cities. Her first poetry collection, This Body, This Fruit, will be published by Trio House Press in February 2027. You can find more on Davi and her work, including publications and upcoming events, at DaviGray.com.

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Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, producer, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis), on unceded lands of the Dakota and Ojibwe, where she works through the ReEntry Lab to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration with literary and arts communities ready to receive them.

Davi has work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere. She writes first for the page, but is also a slam poet; as part of the BuckSlam team, she placed third at Midwest Poetry Mash-Up 2025. She was a finalist for the Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellowship in 2025; has been awarded grants by the Minnesota State Arts Board, the City of Minneapolis, and others; is producing a podcast due out in late 2025; and has several digital film projects and collaborations in progress. Her first poetry collection, This Body, This Fruit, a finalist for the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry, will be published by Trio House Press in February 2027.

You can find more on Davi and her work, including publications and upcoming events and performances, at DaviGray.com.

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If you have something nice to say about one of my poems, performances, other pieces of work, events, or interactions, I'd love to hear (or read) it! Please send via email, hit my DMs, text me, or scribble it on paper and hand directly to me. I won't use your name unless it's a sufficiently anonymous first name or you give me explicit permission.

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Your poem “Instructions for the Breath” hit so deep for me. This year, I had to teach myself how to breathe again. I’ve been more furious than I can ever remember being, and I had to learn that breath is healing. And your words are medicine. I’ll remember to be the pool, not the dam, and it will help to heal. Thank you.

Audience member
Poetry

Thank you for your words – a lot of them really resonated with my own journey.

Emily
Play

Your writing is so uniquely yours and sounds to me like genius. I would like to read your work every day and share it with all my friends. I feel honored to hear it.

Monica
Poetry

I read your script.
It’s absolutely stunning, and I don’t say that lightly or give effusive comments regularly. It’s truly beautiful in the vein of Sarah Ruhl, but I honestly haven’t ever read anything like it.
I’m really glad that you’re going to share it with the world, because everyone should see it. There were several times I stopped reading just to say “wow”.
It’s tender, gut wrenching, and deeply personal, with universal themes and elements.

Actor, director, screenwriter
Play

Gripping from beginning to end; I hung on every word. Beautiful imagery and word choice. Cohesive, moving, brilliant.

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On Native land

I live and work in Minneapolis (Bde Óta Othúŋwe), in Mni Sóta Makoce, traditional homelands of the Dakota and the Ojibwe, many of whom were displaced or killed through both casual and deliberate acts of genocide.

There are eleven federally recognized American Indian tribes with reservations throughout Minnesota, seven Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and four Dakota (Sioux), but the Native population is everywhere around us, and recognition of their stewardship of these lands and the harms perpetrated on them in the past and present is a vital part of our responsibility as inhabitants of the land.

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