Tobias Wray’s poetry collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, won the Lighthouse Poetry Series Competition. His poems have found homes in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Impossible Archetype, On the Seawall, and The Georgia Review. Poems also appear in Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press) and Poetry Is Bread (Nirala Press). Most recently, he was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in support of new projects, including a manuscript on grief called Daddy Essay. He currently serves as director of the Creative Writing programs at the University of Central Oklahoma. Reach him at www.tobiaswray.com.

Contributions: Two poems [Fall 2025]