Fez Avery is a poet from Michigan.
Fez is the author of CLAYBOY, a 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize winner forthcoming from Write Bloody Publishing in May 2026.
He is a PhD student at Western Michigan University and holds an MFA from Virginia Tech. He also teaches poetry at Interlochen Arts Camp.
He spends his free time with horses.
“The Moss Takes Us to an 80s Sex Shop,” “Let’s Play College”
Gulf Coast, 2024
“New Girl Seeking New Boy”
The Journal, 2024
“Under a Stack of Towels, 1991”
NonBinary Review (Contributor of the Month), 2024
“My Twin Sister Franchises Me”
PULP, 2025
“I Am Going to Find the Finest Rotisserie Chicken”
Bellevue Literary Review, 2025
“I had a lump”
Passages North, forthcoming 2026
“Canada Wildfires Over Northern Michigan"
Camp Hiawatha, 2024
“He Thinks it’s Funny to Scare Us, to Pinch Us”
Bear Review, forthcoming 2025
“To the Boy Who Wore One Diamond Earring and Tongued”
Moon City Review, 2025
“Self Portrait as Plumber”
Tupelo Quarterly, 2025
“We Move Into the Last McMansion On the Mountain”
ATMO, forthcoming 2026
