CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
"The Ocean Between the Leaves" is in the July/August 2019 issue of Asimov's, with an audio version read by me for the Asimov's blog here
"Winter Timeshare" is out in The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Gardner Dozois, ed.
"Fire in the Bone" in Clarkesworld January 2019
"The Ocean Between the Leaves" is in the July/August 2019 issue of Asimov's, with an audio version read by me for the Asimov's blog here
"Winter Timeshare" is out in The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Gardner Dozois, ed.
"Fire in the Bone" in Clarkesworld January 2019
UPCOMING
"Beyond the High Altar" in NIGHTMARE September 2019
"The Disintegration Loops" in Asimov's November / December 2019
"The Death of Fire Station 10" in Lightspeed 2019
"Return to the Red Castle" in Asimov's 2020
"If I Were You" in Yemassee est 2019/2020
"El Niño" and "The Drought Cycle" in Potomac Review 2019-2020
"Winter Timeshare" in Forever Magazine est 2020
"Beyond the High Altar" in NIGHTMARE September 2019
"The Disintegration Loops" in Asimov's November / December 2019
"The Death of Fire Station 10" in Lightspeed 2019
"Return to the Red Castle" in Asimov's 2020
"If I Were You" in Yemassee est 2019/2020
"El Niño" and "The Drought Cycle" in Potomac Review 2019-2020
"Winter Timeshare" in Forever Magazine est 2020
Ray Nayler’s speculative fiction stories have been published in Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and NIGHTMARE. His short story "Winter Timeshare" was collected in The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, also edited by Gardner Dozois, as well as in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, edited by Rich Horton. His story "Mutability" was published in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. Ray's poetry has been published in the Atlanta Review, 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 appeared in many venues, including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Crimewave, Hardboiled, Cemetery Dance, Deathrealm, and the Berkeley Fiction Review. Ray is a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkmenistan. He speaks Russian, Albanian and Azerbaijani Turkish, and has lived and worked in Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus for over a decade. He is currently studying Albanian at the Foreign Service Institute in preparation for an assignment to Pristina, Kosovo.
REVIEWS
Review: "The Ocean Between the leaves" in Tangent Online
Rich Horton's review of "Incident at San Juan Bautista" in Locus Online
Review: "Fire in the Bone" at Reviews and Robots
Review: "Fire in the Bone" at Tangent Online
Review: "Incident at San Juan Bautista," (November / December 2018 Asimov's ) at Tangent Online
The one story this year that came out of nowhere to stun me was “Mutability” – Rich Horton, Editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
I feel a sense of loss whenever I finish a truly memorable story. Why couldn’t it go on? Why do I have to leave this wonderful world? This is how I felt after reading “Incident.” Perhaps it was the elegant writing, or maybe the attention to setting detail, but ultimately, I think it was the sheer originality that grabbed me." -- Jeffrey Steven Abrams, Tangent Online
Review: "The Ocean Between the leaves" in Tangent Online
Rich Horton's review of "Incident at San Juan Bautista" in Locus Online
Review: "Fire in the Bone" at Reviews and Robots
Review: "Fire in the Bone" at Tangent Online
Review: "Incident at San Juan Bautista," (November / December 2018 Asimov's ) at Tangent Online
The one story this year that came out of nowhere to stun me was “Mutability” – Rich Horton, Editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
I feel a sense of loss whenever I finish a truly memorable story. Why couldn’t it go on? Why do I have to leave this wonderful world? This is how I felt after reading “Incident.” Perhaps it was the elegant writing, or maybe the attention to setting detail, but ultimately, I think it was the sheer originality that grabbed me." -- Jeffrey Steven Abrams, Tangent Online
PAST PUBLICATIONS
"Worlds to Live in: Atmosphere" blog for Asimov's
"Aphrodisias" in Silk Road Review issue 20.
"Torques / Double Shifts at the KFC" in Atlanta Review Fall / Winter 2018
"Incident at San Juan Bautista" in Asimov's November/December 2018
"Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection ed: Gardner Dozois: July 2018
"Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 ed: Rich Horton (Originally published in Asimov's, January 2017)
"A Threnody for Hazan" (SF Novelette) in Asimov's March/April 2018
"A Strange Feeling in a Parking Lot / The Tree" (poem) in Crab Creek Review 2018
"I ran way but some, by choice, remain . . ." (poem) in Potomac Review 2018
"Photo Submitted as Evidence of Relationship" (graphic poem) in Driftwood Press 2017
"Kyzyl-Orda" (poem) in Badlands Literary Journal, January 2017
"Winter Timeshare" (SF SS) in Asimov's, January / February 2017
"August, Ashgabat" (poem) in Mud Season Review Spring 2016
"Do Not Forget Me" (SF SS) in Asimov's March 2016
"Mutability" (SF SS) in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Ed. Rich Horton 2016
"Beehive, Birdbath, Gas Station Flowers" (poem) in Minetta Review Fall 2015
"The Cigarette Machine" (graphic SS) in Pinball #5 2016
"To the Savages" in Antiphon #12 2016
Mutability (SF SS, Hungarian translation) in Galaktika 311 February 2016
"Mutability" (SF SS) in Asimov's June 2015
Two Suburban Sonnets (poem) in The Collapsar
Suburban Triptych (poem) in Juked Number 11
Letters to Cities in the Fall (prose poem) in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics Issue 10
"Casting" (poem) in Weave Magazine Issue 11
" Confluence," "Varangian," "The Wooden Sword," "My Uncle's Grand Tour," "Wakhan (Narasimha)" (poems) in Elohi Gadugi
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) in Clapboard House Journal
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) (Eclectica Magazine April/May 2013)
Streptomyces (poem) (PiF Magazine December 2012)
A Fat Girl in Paris (poem) (PiF Magazine December 2012)
Custer Shoots His Horse (poem) (PiF Magazine November 2012)
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) (Able Muse Volume 15)
Old School (poem) (Beloit Poetry Review, Summer 2013)
"Never have a town named after you" (poem) (Phantom Limb, Summer 2013)
Present in the Past (poem) (Shadow Road Quarterly, Fall 2013)
The Idiot Birds (SS) (nthposition.com) 2009
"Catch" (noir SS) in Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset 2003
"Cutting Wood, Carrying Water" (noir SS) in Crimewave 4: Mood Indigo 2002
"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" (noir SS) in Cemetery Dance #38, 2002
"The Bat House" (noir SS) in Ellery Queen April 2002
American Graveyards (detective novel) TTA Press 2001
"Population Zero"(noir SS) in Blue Murder 20, 2001
"Sleepwalking" (noir SS) in Blue Murder 18, 2001
"Saturday Night Special" (noir SS) in Ellery Queen February 2001
"The Ride" (noir SS) in The Edge: Tales of Suspense #5, 1999
"The Watchman" (SS) in Berkeley Fiction Review 18, 1998
"The Ropes of the Lasso Inn" (horror SS) Deathrealm Winter 1996/1997
"Waiting" (SS) Lines in the Sand 1996
"Worlds to Live in: Atmosphere" blog for Asimov's
"Aphrodisias" in Silk Road Review issue 20.
"Torques / Double Shifts at the KFC" in Atlanta Review Fall / Winter 2018
"Incident at San Juan Bautista" in Asimov's November/December 2018
"Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection ed: Gardner Dozois: July 2018
"Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 ed: Rich Horton (Originally published in Asimov's, January 2017)
"A Threnody for Hazan" (SF Novelette) in Asimov's March/April 2018
"A Strange Feeling in a Parking Lot / The Tree" (poem) in Crab Creek Review 2018
"I ran way but some, by choice, remain . . ." (poem) in Potomac Review 2018
"Photo Submitted as Evidence of Relationship" (graphic poem) in Driftwood Press 2017
"Kyzyl-Orda" (poem) in Badlands Literary Journal, January 2017
"Winter Timeshare" (SF SS) in Asimov's, January / February 2017
"August, Ashgabat" (poem) in Mud Season Review Spring 2016
"Do Not Forget Me" (SF SS) in Asimov's March 2016
"Mutability" (SF SS) in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Ed. Rich Horton 2016
"Beehive, Birdbath, Gas Station Flowers" (poem) in Minetta Review Fall 2015
"The Cigarette Machine" (graphic SS) in Pinball #5 2016
"To the Savages" in Antiphon #12 2016
Mutability (SF SS, Hungarian translation) in Galaktika 311 February 2016
"Mutability" (SF SS) in Asimov's June 2015
Two Suburban Sonnets (poem) in The Collapsar
Suburban Triptych (poem) in Juked Number 11
Letters to Cities in the Fall (prose poem) in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics Issue 10
"Casting" (poem) in Weave Magazine Issue 11
" Confluence," "Varangian," "The Wooden Sword," "My Uncle's Grand Tour," "Wakhan (Narasimha)" (poems) in Elohi Gadugi
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) in Clapboard House Journal
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) (Eclectica Magazine April/May 2013)
Streptomyces (poem) (PiF Magazine December 2012)
A Fat Girl in Paris (poem) (PiF Magazine December 2012)
Custer Shoots His Horse (poem) (PiF Magazine November 2012)
Three Suburban Sonnets (poems) (Able Muse Volume 15)
Old School (poem) (Beloit Poetry Review, Summer 2013)
"Never have a town named after you" (poem) (Phantom Limb, Summer 2013)
Present in the Past (poem) (Shadow Road Quarterly, Fall 2013)
The Idiot Birds (SS) (nthposition.com) 2009
"Catch" (noir SS) in Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset 2003
"Cutting Wood, Carrying Water" (noir SS) in Crimewave 4: Mood Indigo 2002
"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" (noir SS) in Cemetery Dance #38, 2002
"The Bat House" (noir SS) in Ellery Queen April 2002
American Graveyards (detective novel) TTA Press 2001
"Population Zero"(noir SS) in Blue Murder 20, 2001
"Sleepwalking" (noir SS) in Blue Murder 18, 2001
"Saturday Night Special" (noir SS) in Ellery Queen February 2001
"The Ride" (noir SS) in The Edge: Tales of Suspense #5, 1999
"The Watchman" (SS) in Berkeley Fiction Review 18, 1998
"The Ropes of the Lasso Inn" (horror SS) Deathrealm Winter 1996/1997
"Waiting" (SS) Lines in the Sand 1996