Evan Gray lives in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. He has earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His first book, Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars was released in 2023 with Garden-Door Press. Since then, he has given readings and presentations at Cornell University, Duke University, West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and others.

He currently serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English at Appalachian State University where he teaches classes in writing and rural rhetoric. His poems, essays, short stories, interviews, and reviews have been featured in print and online journals across the U.S. and Canada.