Davi Gray (she/they)

@davigray.com

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Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼 Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).

Car selfie of Davi, a white nonbinary woman, wearing a pink and white and red dappled shirt and blonde pigtails, with an "I Voted Early" sticker.
Large (3000g / 6 lb 10 oz) can of Nina brand whole San Marzano tomatoes resting on a wooden butcher block counter.
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Davi Gray's hand holding a physical copy of her forthcoming poetry collection, "This Body, This Fruit" (in front of an open laptop with stickers saying "Show Some Love" (TruArtSpeaks), SELF/MADE, "You shine so bright," "shop small and buy local art," and others).
Flyer for "This Body, This Fruit," a play by Davi Gray. July 8th-14th, Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis. More info, and tickets, at ThisBodyThisFruit.com.
Photo of four books: Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places, In Love (Amy Bloom), Manhunt Is My Mission, and Lust.
Morning Song (by Davi Gray) One morning in the middle of July the grass was wet with night's breath, air soaked in early sun. Outside my window thirty-two small birds-light brown streaked with dark- hopped and dipped among the blades, beaking up breakfast from the dirt. Grass tips shone with points of white light like a concert crowd lifting up flames in praise of the birds' whistling chorus and the sun with its long slow morning song.
Flyer for This Body, This Fruit, a play by Davi Gray
Meme pic, woman with head in one hand. Text: "That awful moment when you realize this is your circus and those are your monkeys." [Source long forgotten 🦄]
Video promotion for This Body, This Fruit, consisting of various images of the flyer graphic (fruit in hands) with incrementally added text, interspersed with images from performances of a much earlier, shorter vrsion of the play.
Freezer package, product of Korea: Crushed Ramen & Mozzarella Corn Dogs
Aldi shopping cart in which the small child-seat section is filled with a fairly random assortment of food
Instagram post by @iamthirtyaf with a photo of 7 bananas in progressively greening shades. South Korea came up with "One a Day Banana" packaging, where bananas are packed based on when they'll ripen so they don't all ripen at the same time. It's a brilliant way to cut down food waste while making grab-and-go snacks even easier. 하루하나 바나나, Bana-Valley
Whole freezer compartment of Morningstar vegan frozen burger patties, faux chicken products, and corn dogs, marked $2.99 each for a 3-day sale.
Davi Gray, a white nonbinary trans woman, wearing a patterned dress, bright yellow sandals, and a coppery orange bob.
Bluesky License for Davi Gray (she/they). Web of Trust 5, Generosity 5, Streak 4, Engagement 5, Velocity 2, Veteran 3.
Davi Gray is a white nonbinary trans woman. In this video she has a blond bob.
Photograph of Davi Gray, a white nonbinary trans woman, wearing a tie-dyed maroon and gold dress. She is beautiful ☺️
Photograph of Erin Sharkey, Rahsaan Mahadeo, and chaun webster, seated on stage in the Open Book Performance Hall, a large room with old brick walls.
Photo of the spines of five books: Total Picture Control The Principle of Relativity Crazy Like a Fox (by local artist & author Christi Furnas!) Waking Up White Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
A mixed-media painting by Davi Gray, titled "judge a bitch by her cover." Colors, words, paper. Would do better at this alt text if I could rn but I can't, sorry
PRIDE MONTH 2026 DAVI GRAY (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, and abolitionist. They work through the ReEntry Lab to connect writers and others leaving incarceration with literary and arts communities ready to receive them. Davi has work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere. They are a graduate of the Saint Paul Almanac’s Community Editor Apprenticeship Program for 2025.
Flyer for event, "Reading Beyond the Page" featuring Alice Paige, Davi Gray, Halee Kirkwood, July 23, Lior Hardin, and Luna Rey Hall, "Travelers into, through, around, and/or beyond gender(s)," Saturday, June 13th, 3pm, Quatrefoil Library, 1220 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, MN, 55407. Photos of all six readers, variously genderlicious writers.
Davi Gray promoting her upcoming play.
Soccer players on a field.
Flyer for "Reading Beyond the Page" in Quatrefoil Library with Luna Rey Hall, Halee Kirkwood, Lior Hardinn, July 23, Davi Gray, and Alice Paige. Saturday, June 13th 3pm Quatrefoil Library 1220 E Lake St
A stage on which rests a metal trash can and various other seemingly unrelated objects. In the background, a multicolored (in dark and disturbingly militaristic colors) stone wall; on the floor, an encircling path of something like dead leaves.
Flyer for "This Body, This Fruit," a play written and performed by Davi Gray. Phoenix Theater, 2605 Hennepin Ave, July 8th-14th. ThisBodyThisFruit.com
Photograph of Michael Bazzett, a white man of an age to have been in a punk band in the 80s, reading a poem at a podium.
Photograph of a bowl of gochujang potato stew with a generous dollop of sour cream.
Give your body some sweet and restful sleep. Busy yesterday? Your sleep score dropped because you didn't get enough sleep last night compared to the night before. Remember, sound sleep is key to a healthy lifestyle. 05/26 - 81 Today - 44
Photograph of a page from a book: Gibbon Vol 1 to him, that the sultan was the descendant of the prophet, and the vice-regent of heaven; that patience was the first virtue of a Mussulman. and unlimited obedience the great duty of a subject. The minds of the Romans were very differently prepared for slavery. Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas, of their free-born ancestors. The education of Helvidius and Thrasea, of Tacitus and Pliny, was that of Cato and Cicero. From Grecian philosophy the same as they had imbibed the justest and most liberal notions of the dignity of human nature, and the origin of civil society. The history of their own country had taught them to revere a free, a virtuous, and a victorious commonwealth; to abhor the successful crimes of Cæsar and Augustus; and inwardly to despise those tyrants whom they adored with the most abject flattery. As magistrates and senators, they were admitted into the great council which had once dictated laws to the earth, whose name stil gave a sanction to the acts of the monarch, and whose authority was so often prostituted to the vilest purposes of tyranny. Tiberius, and those emperors who adopted his maxims, attempted to disguise their murders by the formalities of justice, and perhaps enjoyed a secret pleasure in rendering the senate their accomplice as well as their victim. By this assembly the last of the Romans were condemned for imaginary crimes and real virtues. Their infamous accusers assumed the language of independent patriots, who arraigned a dangerous citizen before the tribunal of his country; and the public service was rewarded by riches and honours. The servile judges professed to assert the majesty of the commonwealth, violated in the person of its first magistrate;
Flyer for play, This Body, This Fruit. Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis, July 8-14
Text reads: "Portrait of Midway: A video poetry collaboration" over a still from the video, which shows a US flag and a Minnesota flag flying in the wind.
Flyer with information on reading: June 13th, 3pm, Quatrefoil Library, 1220 E Lake St. Photos of the five readers, all gender-nonconforming (one Black person, four white).
Photograph of the back of a Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal box with a QR code to unlock a character creator item in Minecraft.
Submittable message with text blocked out by bright red bars: Dear Davi, Thank you for sending us "The City You Imagine Is Not the Sea." We hate you. Consider sucking elsewhere. Sincerely,
Dutch oven nearly full of brothy Thai red curry; visible components include peppers, celery, mushrooms, water chestnuts, green peas, broccoli, carrots, and chunks of tofu.
Photograph of incredibly cute baby squirrel, very close up.
Twitter post: Your Kentucky Derby horse name is: A symptom of one of your mental illnesses + the last thing you ate
Photo with orange roses in an oddly and fantastically decorated apartment.
Framecap from film with Official Selection - Hello from Fargo Film Festival 2026 in laurels.
Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, April 7th, 2026, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Sagirah Shahid, Suzanne Locke, Isavela Lopez, Ben Westlie, and Nick Metcalf.
Library hardcover edition of Water, Mirror, Echo.
Photo of Davi Gray, a white nonbinary trans woman, at MCAD. She's wearing blond hair, a floral mask, and a magenta floral coat.
Promotional image with text, "Free poem for you today (Outlaw Cento) - news.davigray.com" and a partial image of the cover of the book, "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry."
Davi Gray, a white nonbinary trans woman, wearing a bright pink bob, a dress in the colors of the trans pride flag, green belt, smooth white boots, a silver ring, and long almond-shaped nails with blue & pink patterns. She has a tiny lavalier mic clipped to her collar. She's taking a selfie in a floor-to-ceiling bathroom mirror.
Two frames from "Destroyer" - top is ship broken and in flames, bottom is the partially dismembered corpse of a white woman with a previously conventionally attractive face; it's lying in the rubble.
Transgender Day of Visibility Showcase flyer. Tuesday, March 31st, 4-6pm, 625 4th Avenue South, Minneapolis. Stories - Spoken Word - Music.
Photo of Davi, a white nonbinary woman, wearing short blond hair, a floral KN95, and a brightly colored striped hoodie over a pink CK t-shirt. She's on an airplane.
LLM-generated image of a woman holding a ludicrously oversized Canon EOS R#### T7 in a pink silicone cover.
Photograph of Nick Metcalf, a two-spirit American Indian. In this photo, they are wearing a striped collared shirt over a t-shirt and standing in front of a microphone with one hand raised.
Photograph of Ben Westlie, a young white man with dark blond hair. In this photo, he wears short hair, a short scruff of beard and mustache, a wide smile, and a crimson velour T-shirt. He's standing, arms crossed, in front of an out-of-focus grassy field.
Flyer for Spring Writing Workshop with Davi Gray - Visual Poetry. Tuesday, April 21st, 2026, 6-8pm. Photo of Davi Gray, a white nonbinary woman wearing a black roll-neck sweater, short dark-fading-to-blond hair swept to one side, and a dangling yellow earring.
Photograph of Sagirah Shahid, a Black woman with light brown skin. In this photo, her hair is pulled back into a low bun; she's wearing thin gold framed glasses, a tan sweater over olive shirt, a gold necklace, and a skeptical expression. Behind her on the wall, a framed print with Arabic writing and an English phrase, "IT MATTERS WHERE YOU START - A NARRATIVE."
Photograph of a gate standing by itself on a frozen lakeshore. Metaphorically, me, trying to achieve my purpose with a reckless disregard for environment and circumstances.
Photograph of Suzanne Locke, a white woman with long blond hair. In this photo she's wearing a black coat over a fuchsia top, two necklaces, a nose stud, and glasses propped on top of her head. She's got a wide smile and freckles.
Photograph of Sagirah Shahid, a Black woman with light brown skin. In this photo, her hair is pulled back into a low bun; she's wearing thin gold framed glasses, a tan sweater over olive shirt, a gold necklace, and a skeptical expression. Behind her on the wall, a framed print with Arabic writing and an English phrase, "IT MATTERS WHERE YOU START - A NARRATIVE."