Grayson Thompson

Stevenson 1301
Wed, Apr 8, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

The English Department and Writers at Sonoma presents Grayson Thompson

Grayson [he/him] is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer transgender cowboy poet who moonlights as a therapist.
He is the inaugural Slam Poetry Champion of Santa Rosa, CA and a Foglifter Press' 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize Winner for Sand Bodied Florida Boy, and winner of Write Bloody Publishing's 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize for his full-length collection, A Congregation of Alligators (September 2025).
Grayson is a performer for the FOUND POETS reading series in Sonoma County and part of
Chicago's Exhibit Literary Variety Show.
Sponsored by the English Department and the Instructionally Related Activities fund at SSU