Born in Quebec and raised in California, Ray Nayler has lived and worked abroad for nearly two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani Turkish, and Vietnamese. Ray is a Foreign Service Officer, and previously worked in international educational development, as well as serving in the Peace Corps in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. 

​Ray began publishing speculative fiction in 2015 in the pages of Asimov’s _with the short story "Mutability"  Since then, his critically acclaimed stories have seen print in _Clarkesworld, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, _and Nightmare, as well as in several Locus Recommended Reading lists and “Best of the Year” anthologies. His story "Winter Timeshare” from the January/February 2017 issue of _Asimov's was collected by the late Gardner Dozois in The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction. His story "The Ocean Between the Leaves" from the July/August 2019 issue of Asimov's was selected for _The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 5, _edited by Neil Clarke. 

Though chiefly known for his speculative fiction, Ray has published in many genres, from mainstream "literary" fiction to comics. He is the author of a detective novel, American Graveyards, published by TTA Press, and of a collection of noir short stories, Sleepwalking. _His short stories across numerous genres have appeared in _Ellery Queen, Crimewave, Hardboiled, Cemetery Dance, Deathrealm, Queen's Quarterly, _and the _Berkeley Fiction Review, _among other journals. Ray is also a widely published poet, (sometimes publishing under his full name, Raynald Patrice Desmeules Nayler,) with work in the _Atlanta Review, _the _Beloit Poetry Journal, Weave, Juked, Able Muse, Sentence, _and _many more.  ​ Ray currently lives in Pristina, Kosovo with his wife Anna, their daughter Lydia, and two rescued cats – one Tajik, one American.

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