Jeffrey Gray is the author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry (University of Georgia Press 2005) and of many articles on literature in journals such as Contemporary Literature, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Callaloo, and MLA Profession. His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Literary Review, Yale Review, Notre Dame Review, and other periodicals. He is the English translator of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s novels The African Shore (Yale University Press 2014) and Chaos, a Fable (Amazon Crossing 2018), and co-editor (with Ann Keniston) of The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagement (University of Michigan Press, 2016) and The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland, 2013). He is also a jazz flutist, playing at venues in New York and New Jersey. A professor at Seton Hall University, he was born in Seattle, Washington, and has lived in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, and Latin America.
Some recent or forthcoming publications:
“Too Late” in Tupelo Quarterly:
“Roberto Bolaño, Ciudad Juárez, and the Future of Nativism” in Pacific Coast Philology. Special Issue: “Migration, Immigration, and Movement.” (2014):
“Elizabeth Bishop and Travel” in Elizabeth Bishop in Context. Ed. Angus Cleghorn, et al. Cambridge UP, 2020. Forthcoming.
“Data Dump: Poetry and Information in the 21st Century” in Bloomsbury Handbook to Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod. Bloomsbury, 2020.
Companion to American Poetry, co-editor with Mary McAleer Balkun and Paul Jaussen. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming in 2020.
