Tobias Wray directs the Creative Writing Programs for graduate and undergraduate students. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Texas Review, Third Coast, Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing and Spoon River Poetry Review. He has served as an editor for cream city review an, until 2017, coordinated Eat local :: Read Local at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a program that partners local restaurants with poets from Milwaukee and Madison. He is currently working on a full-length poetry manuscript.

Some of his work is published with the Academy of American Poetry, as well as in American Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Blackbird, The Fourth River, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Southern Indiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Texas Review, and Third Coast.

• 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
• Gender Studies
• Queer Literature and Theory