Maria Gray’s work is forthcoming from or published in Best New Poets, ONLY POEMS, Foglifter, and others. She was longlisted for ONLY POEMS' Poet of the Year Prize in 2024 and 2025, and she has received additional honors from The Adroit Journal, poetry.onl, and Nine Syllables Press, among others. She studies poetry at Hunter College, where she is pursuing her MFA in creative writing. Her debut chapbook Science Before Fiction is forthcoming from Game Over Books in 2026. Preorder your copy.