R. W. Gray is an award-winning screenwriter and director who has directed seven short films. In 2018, he filmed his first feature film Entropic. With his collaborators at Frictive Pictures they have made fourteen short films.

He is also the author of two books of short stories. His most recent book, Entropic, won the prestigious Thomas Raddall prize for fiction. His poetry has been published in the Broadview Introduction to Literature,  the anthology Seminal and magazines such as The Malahat Review, The Windsor Review and ARC Poetry magazine.

He is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.