Grayson Thompson (he/him) is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer transgender cowboy poet and therapist. He is the winner of Foglifter Press’s 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize for Sand Bodied Florida Boy (June 2025) and Write Bloody Publishing’s 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize Winner for A Congregation of Alligators(September 2025.) His work appears in Cathexis Northwest Press, Foglifter, Cleaver (Best of the Net nominee,) Poetry Online, and more. A wanderer, he lives in Northern California, curating salad recipes and marveling at the ocean. He chooses madness–honest and full-hearted–and hopes you find some in his poems.
2025 Bookworm Blockparty
Speaker – Chimera Space: Monstrous, Lovely, and Liminal
2025 Writers’ Workshops
Speaker – Panel: We Will Not Disappear: Queer/Trans Voices in a Time of Backlash
