Washington Writers' Publishing House

Gray Jacobik

Gray Jacobik is a widely anthologized poet: The Double Task was selected by James Tate for the Juniper Prize; The Surface of Last Scattering received the X. J. Kennedy Prize; Brave Disguises, the AWP Poetry Series Award. In 2016 The Banquet: New & Selected Poems received the William Meredith Award in Poetry. She’s been awarded The Yeats Prize, the Emily Dickinson Award and the Third Coast Poetry Prize. Jacobik is a painter as well as a poet and several CKP covers have featured her art. She has released two poetry collection with CavanKerry Press – Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse (2011) and Eleanor (2020). She was born in Newport News, VA in 1944 and grew up in Hampton, VA and Long Island. She is a graduate of Goddard College and turned to writing poetry at the age of 30 after having trained as an artist and in graphic design.