Catherine Simone Gray

Catherine Simone Gray is a Mississippi-based writer and educator. Her debut memoir Proud Flesh received the Mississippi Library Association 2026 Author Award for Non-Fiction. Featured by Roxane Gay as an Emerging Writer in The Audacity, her work has also appeared in The Bitter Southerner and the Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape. Catherine began writing about her intimate experiences of new motherhood in a Google Doc on her phone while nursing her first baby, and these writings inspired her blog Unsilenced Woman, which reached 2.5 million readers and was shared by La Leche League USA, International Cesarean Awareness Network, and ImprovingBirth. She is the recipient of a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, in addition to project grants to lead community writing workshops for mothers and caregivers. With an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Mississippi, she has fifteen years of experience as a writing teacher and leads workshops exploring how writing can be an ally in our living and loving.