Jan-Henry Gray
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Columbia College Chicago, MFA: Poetry, 2014-2016
San Francisco State University, BA: Creative Writing, 2014
Bishop Amat Memorial High School, 1996
Publications
Southern Humanities Review-Undocupoets Issue 2016
Puerto Del Sol Issue 22.2
Small Po[r]tions Issue 5
Tupelo Quarterly Issue 8, 2nd Place Prize (Judge: Brenda Hillman)
Assaracus, Sibling Rivalry Press, Issue 8.0
Fourteen Hills, SFSU Review, Issue 21.1
Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 7 Prize Finalist (Judge: Amaud Jamaul Johnson)
Transfer Issues 106 (Linenthal Award) & 107
Scholarships + Awards
Juniper Summer Writing Institute Full Fellowship Award, 2015
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award, 2014-current
Graduate Merit Award Columbia College Chicago, 2014-current
Class of 2014 Undergraduate Honoree: Creative Writing Department
San Francisco State University (SFSU), 2014
Myna Brunton Hughes Dramatic Monologue Award,
San Francisco Browning Society, 2014
Dan Langton Poetry Prize, First Place for “PNW” SFSU, 2014
Mark Linenthal Award for Poetry for “For Tanzania” Transfer 2013
Jim Highsmith Playwriting Award, Runner-up for “Projection Booth Play” SFSU, Fall 2013
Osher Reentry Scholarship, SFSU, Fall 2013
Alumni Association Scholarship, SFSU, Fall 2013
Kathryn Manoogian Scholarship, Honorable Mention,
Creative Writing Department, SFSU, 2013
Mary Malone Prize, English Department Faculty Nomination,
City College of San Francisco, 2012
Dorothy Mercer Prize, First Place,
English Department, City College of San Francisco, 2012
Jack Collins LGBT Studies Academic Scholarship,
Faculty Nomination, City College of San Francisco, 2012
T.W. and Jen-shin Hsu Asian Coalition Scholarship,
City College of San Francisco, 2012
Teaching + Tutoring
Graduate Student Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric I & II
Columbia College Chicago, 2015-current
Graduate Level Composition Theory and Praxis-Teacher Training
Columbia College Chicago, 2014
Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Creative Reading, Prof. Steve Dickison
San Francisco State University, Spring 2013
Composition Tutor, City College of San Francisco, Spring 2012
Workshop Assistant, Experimental Filmmaking, Northwest Film Forum 2002
Workshop Assistant, Youth Make Movies, Northwest Film Forum 2002
Tutor, St. John’s Threshold Afterschool Tutoring 1997
Tutor, Bishop Amat Memorial High School 1996
Writing + Editorial
Editorial Associate, Columbia College Chicago News Office, 2015-current
Editor, Columbia Poetry Review, 2015-2016
Editorial Assistant, Columbia College Chicago News Office, 2015
Editorial Staff, Columbia Poetry Review, 2014-2015
Editorial Staff, Hotel Amerika, 2014-2015
Editorial Staff, Fourteen Hills, 2014
Residencies + Readings
Artist-in-Residence, Chicago Ideas Week, 2015
Featured Reader, Ladder to the Moon, 2015
Featured Reader, Columbia College Poetry Reading Series, 2014
with Matthew Shenoda and Adrian Matejka
Featured Reader, JKCF Scholars Weekend Talent Show, 2014
Featured Reader, Nocturnal Daydreams, 2014
Collaborator/Documentary Subject Reverse Engineering
(16mm film, dir. Talia Feder) 2013
Featured Reader, Voz sin Tinta, 2013
Co-host of Under the Table, San Francisco Food Talk Program
(with Cambria Pickett, www.radioslot.com) 2012-2013
Featured Chef, Mission Street Food, 2008
Featured Chef, Filipino Performance Arts and Culture Festival, 2007
Job Experience
Chef, Pizzetta 211, 2013-2015
Manager, Farm:Table Café, 2011-2013
Chef, Project: Open Hand, 2010-2012
Chef, Canteen, 2008-2010
Chef, Firefly, 2003-2007
Box Office Assistant Manager, Asian American Film Festival, 2003
Projectionist, Volunteer Coordinator, Lab Technician, Host and
Programmer of Open Screenings, Northwest Film Forum, 2003
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