![]() ![]() ![]() I felt a tremendous pressure - like, where I go to school is going to dictate the trajectory of my life. ![]() ’Cause I had nothing better to do.Īpparently because you’re a writer and you like writing applications and that’s just what you do. ![]() Rest assured, she’s around.) Rather, the self-described introvert is hitting her stride only after years of rudderless solitude that forced her to write her way through, drawing from her experiences in Little Rock, Fayetteville and Ghana to spin undiscovered worlds. (You might also assume from her given Twitter location, Wakanda, that she isn’t in the 501. To follow her on Instagram or on Tiktok, where Gray shows off an obvious knack for wit and timing, you’d assume she was born for the spotlight. In a very short order, the University of Arkansas grad went from studying historical power struggles in a tower of Old Main to becoming a power player herself. “A dazzling debut,” Kirkus called “Beasts of Ruin.” Netflix agreed and snagged it into development for a feature film. That fateful tweet got her an agent the agent got her a deal with Putnam. For Gray, who moved to Little Rock from Atlanta as a young teen, and who calls Little Rock home now, the rise from a total unknown - pitching her epic in 2019 via a Twitter hashtag - has been meteoric. ![]()
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