Grayson Thompson is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer trans cowboy poet moonlighting as a therapist. A mouthful, Grayson is winner of Write Bloody's 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize and Foglifter Press' 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize for Sand Bodied Florida Boy. He's been featured in Cathexis Northwest, Cleaver, Poetry Online, and other homes for poetry. During the 2024 AWP Conference, Grayson opened for the amazing Donika Kelly with Chicago's Exhibit B. Grayson is a TA for Buddy Wakefield's Writer's Anonymous, supporting emerging and established word assemblers. A wanderer, he lives in Northe