Tobias Wray
Director, Creative Writing Programs
Brink Hall 203
English Department
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102
Ph.D., Creative Writing, Poetry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017
M.F.A., Creative Writing Poetry and Translation, University of Arkansas, 2012
B.A., English-Creative Writing and French Literature, University of Minnesota, 2005
Tobias Wray directs the U of I’s Creative Writing Programs for graduate and undergraduate students. His first poetry collection No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man was selected by Randall Mann for the Lighthouse Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Press, fall 2021. Poems, reviews, and other writing appear widely, including in Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Meridian, Third Coast, Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing, Spoon River Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain, and The Georgia Review.
Books
No Doubt I will Return a Different Man, Cleveland State University Press, 2021
Anthologized Poems
The Queer Nature Anthology, Autumn House Press, 2021
The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures, Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2021
- Lighthouse Poetry Prize, Cleveland State University Press, 2020
- Runner-up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, Hunger Mountain, 2020
- Finalist, The Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, 2019
- Longlisted, The Poetry Society of the United Kingdom, National Poetry Competition, 2019
- Finalist, Autumn House Press Poetry Chapbook Contest, 2019
- Edward W. Ryan Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2016
- Finalist, James Wright Poetry Award, 2016
- Finalist, Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize, 2015
- Finalist, The Iowa Review Award, 2015
- The James A. Sappenfield Fellowship, 2015
- Finalist, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, 2014
- Finalist, American Literary Review Poetry Prize, 2014
- Finalist, Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize, 2010, 2014
- Poetry Writing
- Closet Dramas and Verse Plays
- Narrative Poetics
- Queer Literature and Theory