is a transfemme writer living & working in Portland
About Grey
When my 7th-grade Catholic school teacher threw my horror story in the trash and said, “Good Catholics don’t write things like this,” I understood two things: my stories challenge narrow ideas of morality and the world needs them. With my parents' encouragement, I kept writing stories that blend humor and horror, tenderness and audacity, works of fiction meant to soothe, unsettle, and provoke empathy.
As a queer writer, I know my work doesn’t fit into the “easy truths” demanded by a heterosexist literary landscape. My characters are messy, my humor is subversive, and my stories refuse to flatten queer existence into something safe. Like my greatest influence, John Waters, whose Hairspray smuggled radical joy into a PG-rated Trojan horse, I create narratives that entertain while challenging the status quo.
Growing up queer, introspective, and odd, I learned to navigate alienation with curiosity instead of bitterness. My writing comes from a need to examine the awkward, the grotesque, and the overlooked. I write for those who have been muted by apathy, suffering, and violence. My goal is to reframe humiliation as shared experience, culpability as growth, and truth as something gloriously complex.
Through my writing, I aim to carve out a literary space where queerness isn’t a subplot but the beating heart of the narrative.
