Dorothy Randall Gray is the best-selling author of Soul Between The Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing (Avon/HarperCollins), a former New York University faculty member and Audre Lorde Poet-In-Residence at Hunter College. She is author of five books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

Presently she conducts transformational creative and personal development seminars throughout the world and serves as a board member of the International Women’s Writing Guild. Her published works include Muse Blues, Family, Love, Creative Rituals for Daily Living, and The Passion Collection. Her writings have also been published in periodicals and anthologies such as the New York Times, Personal Journaling, Best Black Women’s Erotica, Sisterfire, Glowchild, Drumvoices Revue, Creative Juices, Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Blackness, and Gaptooth Girlfriends: The Third Act.

Dorothy has been a commentator for National Public Radio, literary consultant to the United Nations Committee on Women, and delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing which commissioned her to create a poem for their opening ceremony.

She has been a featured reader and workshop facilitator at many universities, cultural institutions and venues including Nuyorican Poet’s Café, the American Museum of Natural History, the Autry Museum, Carnegie Mellon Institute, National Writer’s Union, Austin International Poetry Festival, First Coast Writer’s Festival, Poetry Therapy Association, Center for Policy Studies, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Omega Institute, and the Kentucky Women Writer’s Conference.

She has been featured on several radio and television stations, and has performed with Gaptooth Girlfriends: The Third Act, The Stations Collective, and Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group at The Kitchen in New York City.

Dorothy is Executive Director of the Heartland Institute for Transformation, an organization dedicated to personal empowerment, global healing, transformational creativity, and spiritual activism. The institute conducts an annual Pen Harvest of Hope to provide assistance to village schools in Africa and funds organizations that support women and girl’s empowerment.

In 2002 she was invited to share the dais with the Dalai Lama in New Delhi and to speak at the World Council. The following year she was invited to address the Elders of Ancient Traditions conference in Mumbai, and collaborate with the Poet Laureate of Trinidad. She was also a special guest at UNESCO’s International Ministerial Conference on Dialogue Among Civilizations: Quest for New Perspectives in Delhi.

Her numerous community service commendations include the Lion’s Club Distinguished Service Award, as well as citations from the City Council, the New York State Assembly and the Borough President of Brooklyn. In 2005 Dorothy was awarded the prestigious Hedgebrook Fellowship.

She currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.