An MFA candidate at California State University-Fresno and an editorial intern for The Normal School, Michael Gray attended the Raleigh Review Writer’s Studio Workshop and is a recipient of a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award and the 2013 Hot Street Emerging Writers Contest in Poetry. He has translated some poems of Yau Ching and completed some self-translations. His work appears in journals as Puerto del Sol, Bitterzoet Magazine and Atwood Magazine, and is forthcoming in Hot Street, Fence, and Poetry East West, among other places. Gray is currently at work translating a manuscript of the contemporary poet Xue Di 雪迪. [Translation] [Cha profile]