About Me — Courtenay S. Gray

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself” — Simone De Beauvoir

When was I born?

I was born on the 28th May 1997, which makes me almost twenty-four years old.

Where am I from?

I am from Greater Manchester, England.

Ok, now we have got the questions your doctor might ask you out the way; let’s dig into what I think you really ought to know about me.

My dream of becoming a writer began when I was just four years old. I have always relished reading a book and writing a story. It all began with fantasy fiction and short stories. There was a period of four years where I didn’t write a word, nor did I read a lot. I like to see this as my cocooning period. It was not until 2014 that my process of transformation would begin.

I decided to get myself back into writing poetry which is something I briefly dabbled in as a child. I self-published my very first poetry collection in 2015, which was called Top Hat & Time Tales. My second poetry collection was released in 2017; it was…