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Ryan Doyle May’s work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Esque, Food I Corp, Supermachine, Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on the Women Who Inspire Them and others. He is the author of the chapbook The Anatomy of Gray (Corresponding Society Press) and acted as the lead in the short film August, which was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and lives in Brooklyn.

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The Anatomy of Gray

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