Author Content Marketing Writer
Specialty Subjects : Maternal mortality/maternal health disparities, reproductive health access and reproductive legislation, maternal wellness, healthcare deserts, gardening, urban wildlife, quirky subcultures.
Book Credits : Essays appearing in ''Southern Women'' (HarperCollins, October 2019) and ''Why We Cook'' (Workman Publishing, March 2021).
Enter your professional bio here : Gray Chapman has worked as a professional writer since 2011, and a freelance writer since 2014. Her journalism and essays have 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. As a content marketer and copywriter, she has worked with large consumer and B2B brands, small startups, and agencies of all sizes, creating campaigns, writing video scripts, ghostwriting thought leadership content, and more. In her work as a journalist, Gray has reported on the critical role of postpartum Medicaid expansion in mitigating the state's maternal mortality crisis, the unintended public health consequences of anti-abortion legislation, the experiences of pregnant women stuck in county jails during the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact of a major urban hospital's abrupt shuttering on accessible obstetric care, and the experiences of mothers in Western North Carolina who struggled to access basic resources for their infants in the devastating aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene. Her 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 was awarded a Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award. In 2020, she and her husband, photographer Dane Sponberg, coproduced a short documentary about pregnancy and birth during the pandemic, ''Still Life,'' which premiered at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival in 2021. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.
Writing Credits : Contributed to The New York Times, the Guardian, the Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, Atlanta Magazine, Communication Arts, VICE, the Outline, Eater, Vox, Racked, SELF, Romper, Imbibe, Atlas Obscura, Bon Appetit, Curbed, Nylon, PUNCH, Teen Vogue, and others.
Essays appearing in “Southern Women” (HarperCollins, October 2019) and “Why We Cook” (Workman Publishing, March 2021).
Writer, “Still, Life,” premiered at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival in 2021.
Awards and Recognition : Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award, 2019
Skills (Select all that apply) : Advertorials, Articles, Blog posts, Content marketing, Copywriting, Essays, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Investigative reporting, News, Op-Ed, Profiles, Q&A, Scripts, Web copy
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