Jeffrey Gray

Jeffrey Gray is professor of English at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He is author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and of many articles on poetry and American culture. He is editor of the five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood, 2005); and co-editor (with Ann Keniston) of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland, 2012) and The News from Poems: Essays on the 21st Century American Poetry of Engagement (University of Michigan Press, 2016). He is also translator of Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s The African Shore (Yale University Press,2013); and Chaos, a Fable (Amazon Crossings, 2018). He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and has lived in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, and Latin America.