Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler's Science Fiction short stories, "Mutability," "Do Not Forget Me" and "Winter Timeshare" have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. "Mutability" was published in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, and "Winter Timeshare" is upcoming in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection?, edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton. Ray's poetry has been published in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Weave, Juked, Able Muse, Sentence, Phantom Limb, and many other magazines. His detective novel, American Graveyards, was published in the UK by Third Alternative Press. His short stories across many genres have been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Deathrealm, Crimewave, and the Berkeley Fiction Review, among others. Ray is a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkmenistan. Ray speaks Russian and Azerbaijani, and has lived and worked in the countries of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union for nearly a decade. His current posting is to Baku, Azerbaijan.