The Works of Their Hands

The Living Works

Poetry and prose published under my name. (Some were originally published under my deadname but have been corrected.)

Live Publications – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Disaster Is in the Eye of the Beholder | Poetry (February 2021)
— see also (SPAM Cuts) ‘Disaster Is in the Eye of the Beholder’ by Davi Gray for an analysis of this poem (by Nadira Clare Wallace, for SPAM zine&Press)

Caravan of Wounds | Water~Stone Review, Vol. 27 Love by Abandonment (2024-2025)

You Can’t Put Prison in a Poem | Hayden’s Ferry Review (issue 74 – spring / summer 2024)
— see also 3 Questions with Davi Gray (on the Hayden’s Ferry Review blog) for more on this poem

They Never Expected This to Happen | #EnbyLife (April 8, 2024)

I Learned My Love for the Beatles | NonBinary Review, Issue #35: Old Friends (March 2024)
— see also Author Interview (Q & A) with Davi Gray

Anatomy Lessons | RogueAgent (Issue 104, November 2023)

In Which She Embarked Upon a Voyage | Honorable Mention, 2023 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry contest — The Comstock Review (Fall/Winter 2023)

Lightning Rods | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Poetry — 2022 Prison Writing contest

Eugene Cernan, Last Man on the Moon | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Poetry — 2020 Prison Writing Contest

Why I Write | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Essay — 2020 Prison Writing Contest

Time Reversal Invariance | PEN America — Winner, 2nd Place, Poetry — 2019 Prison Writing Contest

Geode | PEN America — Winner, 3rd Place, Edward Bunker Prize, Fiction — 2019 Prison Writing Contest

Gravity Makes the Heart Grow Heavy (with video) | Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop

Wake Up; Philosopher’s Song; Already Sick and Tired; Doomsday Preppers | Evening Street Press (DIY Reads)

The Graveyard

Everything below here was published under my deadname. (About deadnaming: Wikipedia.)

Other Publications

There are more. Some were limited editions or otherwise not generally available.

Time Reversal Invariance, read by Rachel Eliza Griffiths at Break Out: A 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Celebration

Geode, read by Shaun Leonardo at Break Out 2019

The Emptiness of Days | SLANT: A Journal of Poetry (Volume 36.2 — Spring 2022)

Elegy for the Sniped | The Comstock Review (Spring/Summer 2022)

The Aftermath; Half Life | The Blotter (April 2022)

The Tide Comes In | Creosote (Spring 2022 Volume XXI, Number 1)

Only Trying to Help | Blue Collar Review (Vol. 25 Issue 1, Fall 2021)

Again, Again | SLANT: A Journal of Poetry (Vol. XXXV, 2021)

The Conception | Blue Collar Review (Vol. 24 Issue 4, Summer 2021)

All Gunwork and No Gunplay Makes Jack a Dull Gunboy | Grasslimb (Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2020)

Rest Stop | Muse Literary Journal (Spring 2020)

Falling | Creosote (Spring 2020 Volume XIX, Number 1)

Anthologies My Work Is In (Poetry & Prose)

Variations on an Undisclosed Location (2022 Prison Writing Awards Anthology)

Breathe into the Ground (2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology)

As I Hear the Rain (2019 Prison Writing Awards Anthology) — Moon Palace Books

Flying Kites: Narratives of Prison Literacies in Essays and Art — Moon Palace Books

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