Draft:Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler (born June 5th, 1976) is an American science fiction author and poet.

Early life
​​Nayler was born in Alma, Quebec, on June 5th, 1976. His family moved to Fremont, California when he was three years old. Nayler studied modern literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and later earned an MA in global diplomacy from SOAS University of London.

Writing
Nayler began writing in earnest when he was 16 and was first published in a literary magazine in 1996. He continued to publish short stories until joining the Peace Corps in 2003, ultimately taking a decade-long hiatus that ended in 2015. Since returning to fiction, Nayler has been published in magazines such as Asimov's, Clarkesworld, and Analog. His first novel, The Mountain in the Sea, won the 2023 Locus Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for the 2023 Nebula Award and Ray Bradbury Prize.

International work
Nayler has worked in the Peace Corps and United States Foreign Service. He is currently a diplomatic fellow and visiting scholar at the George Washington University.

Personal life
Ray currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife Anna, their daughter Lydia, and two cats.

Fiction

 * The Tusks of Extinction (2024)
 * "Berb by Berb" (2023)
 * "The Job at the End of the World" (2023)
 * "The Case of the Blood Stained Tower" (2023)
 * The Mountain in the Sea (2023)
 * ​"The Empty" (2022)
 * "Fostering" (2022)
 * "Mender of Sparrows (2022)
 * "Rain of Days" (2022)
 * "The Summer Castle" (2022)
 * "Muallim" (2021)
 * "Yesterday's Wolf" (2021)
 * "Año Nuevo" (2021)
 * "Sarcophagus" (2021)
 * "The Shadow of His Wings" (2021)
 * "A Rocket for Dimitrios" (2021)
 * ​"Evrim's Children" (2021)
 * "In the Petrified Forest" (2020)
 * "Outside of Omaha" (2020)
 * ​"Architecture" (2020)
 * "The Swallows of the Storm" (2020)
 * "Father" (2020)
 * "Albedo Season" (2020)
 * "Eyes of the Forest" (2020)
 * "Return to the Red Castle" (2020​)
 * "The Disintegration Loops" (2019)
 * "If I Were You" (2019)
 * "The Death of Fire Station 10" (2019)
 * "Beyond the High Altar" (2019)
 * ​"The Ocean Between the Leaves" (2019)
 * ​"Fire in the Bone" (2019)
 * "Incident at San Juan Bautista" (2018)
 * "A Threnody for Hazan" (2018)
 * "Winter Timeshare" (2017)
 * "The Cigarette Machine" (2016)
 * "Do Not Forget Me" (2016)
 * ​"Mutability" (2015)
 * The Idiot Birds (2009)
 * "Catch" (2003)
 * "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" (2002)
 * "The Bat House" (2002)
 * ​American Graveyards (2001)
 * "Population Zero" (2001)
 * "Sleepwalking" (2001)
 * "How They Kill You at Thousand Palms" (2001)
 * "Saturday Night Special" (2001)
 * "Hang on St. Christopher" (2001)
 * "Cutting Wood, Carrying Water" (2000)
 * "The Ride" (1999)
 * "The Watchman" (1998)
 * "The Ropes of the Lasso Inn" (1996)
 * "Waiting" (1996)

Poetry

 * "Delinquencies: Five Poems from the Sonnet Cycle Subrevisions" (2021​)
 * "After the Matinee" (2021)
 * "The Telling of a Dream" (2020)
 * "Past the Trains" (2020)
 * "Analog" (2020)
 * "The Painted Room" (October 2020)
 * "The Drought Cycle" (2019)
 * "El Niño" (2019)
 * "Aphrodisias" (2018)
 * "Torques / Double Shifts at the KFC" (2018)
 * "I ran way but some, by choice, remain..." (2018)
 * "Photo Submitted as Evidence of Relationship" (2018)
 * "A Strange Feeling in a Parking Lot / The Tree" (2018)
 * "Kyzyl-Orda" (2017)
 * "August, Ashgabat" (2016)
 * "Beehive, Birdbath, Gas Station Flowers" (2015)
 * "Confluence" (2014)
 * "Varangian" (2014)
 * "The Wooden Sword" (2014)
 * "My Uncle's Grand Tour" (2014)
 * ​"Wakhan (Narasimha)" (2014)
 * "Two Suburban Sonnets" (2014)
 * "To the Savages" (2014)
 * "Casting" (2014)
 * "Suburban Triptych" (2014)
 * "Three Suburban Sonnets" (2013)
 * "Letters to Cities in the Fall" (2013)
 * "Present in the Past" (2013)
 * "Three Suburban Sonnets" (2013)
 * "Old School" (2013)
 * "Never have a town named after you" (2013)
 * "Three Suburban Sonnets" (2013)
 * "Streptomyces" (2012)
 * "A Fat Girl in Paris" (2012)
 * "Custer Shoots His Horse" (2012)

Translations

 * "Scissors" by Anastasia Bookreyeva (2021)
 * "Terra Rasa" by Anastasia Bookreyeva (2021)