Waiting For Monsoon
The monsoon is coming. We’ve felt it in the air for a few days now. The clear skies have given into cloudy ones, with a bit spurts of sun every once in a while....
Joshua Gray Blog
Dreams and Writing Them
I have been in India for more than a week now and I have yet to have a dream about my new home. My dreams this past week have been very stressful. They indicate...
7 days, 42 years, 3 times
I have been to India twice before. The first time was for seven months. I traveled to many parts of northern India, from Kolkata (Calcutta), Goa, Mumbai (Bombay) up to Rajastan and the base...
A Big Move
In case you heard it through the grapevine, yes it’s true. I have moved to India with my family. My wife arrived in late April with my eldest son Zachary; I stayed behind with...
A Big Move
In case you heard it through the grapevine, yes it’s true. I have moved to India with my family. My wife arrived in late April with my eldest son Zachary; I stayed behind with...
Editor Alex Cigale on my Beowulf
“What makes Joshua Gray’s “verse adaptation with young readers in mind” immediate and powerful is its tender tone: it is addressed to his son, in the same understated, hushed voice of expectation as a...
Georgetown University professor on my children’s Beowulf book
Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University says of my Beowulf for kids: Joshua Gray’s rendering of Beowulf for children is ‘grand and gruesome,’ just like the monster Grendel that stalks its lines. Gray captures both the...
Children’s Beowulf Endorsed By Benjamin Bagby
In my quest to get my children’s adaptation of Beowulf put on the big stage, this weekend I realized I had to get big names to endorse the poem. I wanted one of the...
Children’s Beowulf Endorsed By Benjamin Bagby
In my quest to get my children’s adaptation of Beowulf put on the big stage, this weekend I realized I had to get big names to endorse the poem. I wanted one of the...
Children’s illustrated version of Beowulf, in anglo-saxon verse
It’s been almost ten years since I wrote a children’s version of Beowulf. I wrote it in anglo-saxon verse, and have been wanting it to be a children’s book for some time now. At...