Michael Gray is an MFA (Poetry) candidate at Fresno State and a graduate assistant with The Normal School. Last year, he earned a BA from Gonzaga University. He also studies Mandarin Chinese and knows some Cantonese. His other interests include public transportation and iced tea. He attended the 2012 Raleigh Review Writers' Studio Workshop taught by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar. One of his poems won a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award (forthcoming in Puerto del Sol) and part of another won the Aurorean's Spring/Summer 2012 Creative Writing Student Outstanding Haiku Contest. [Read]