J. Scott Bugher

After riding her bicycle over the Blue Mountains to Pendleton, Oregon, Kate was glad to drive this time. Kate Gray tends her students’ stories at the community college where she’s taught for twenty years. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 2007 and followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006), winner of the Gertrude Press Poetry Prize, and Where She Goes (2000), winner of the Blue Light Chapbook Prize. Her novel, Skin Drag, is an attempt to look at bullying without blinking and will be published by Forest Avenue Press in 2014.