Gray Chapman

Gray Chapman
U.S. Fellows

Freelance Journalist

2025-2026

Gray Chapman has worked as a professional writer since 2011, and a freelance journalist since 2014. Her work has appeared in dozens of online and print outlets, including the New York Times, the Guardian, Atlanta Magazine, The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, Communication Arts, and more. Chapman’s essays have been anthologized in two books: “Southern Women” (HarperCollins, October 2019) and “Why We Cook” (Workman Publishing, March 2021). In 2019, her coverage of Georgia’s abortion legislation won a Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award.

Topic

Exploring the intersection of incarceration, opioid use disorder, and motherhood by centering the experiences of incarcerated mothers navigating addiction and recovery, and the interventions that can alter the trajectory of their lives.