Michael Gray Bulla is a graduate of Wells College, where he majored in Creative Writing. He was named the 2017 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate with Southern Word, and his first poetry collection, “Letters to the Home,” was published in 2019. His debut YA novel, “If I Can Give You That” (Quill Tree), comes out February 28th, 2023. Although originally from Tennessee, Gray currently resides in Ithaca, New York with his polydactyl cat, Hermes.