Ray Nayler’s Science Fiction short stories, “Mutability,” "Do Not Forget Me," "Winter Timeshare" and "A Threnody for Hazan" have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. "Winter Timeshare" is upcoming in The Very Best of the Best: 30 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, as well as 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. "Mutability" was published in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, and His 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.
Upcoming Publications
"Incident at San Juan Bautista" in Asimov's [eta early 2019] "Winter Timeshare" in The Very Best of the Best: 30 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction ed: Gardner Dozois "Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection ed: Gardner Dozois "Winter Timeshare" in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy ed: Rich Horton (Originally published in Asimov's, January 2017) "A Strange Feeling in a Parking Lot / The Tree" (poem) in Crab Creek Review Current and Previous Publications:
"A Threnody for Hazan" in Asimov's March/April 2018 "I ran way but some, by choice, remain . . ." (poem) in Potomac Review "Photo Submitted as Evidence of Relationship" (graphic poem) in Driftwood Press "Kyzyl-Orda" in Badlands Literary Journal , January 2017 "Winter Timeshare" in Asimov's, January 2017 "August, Ashgabat" in Mud Season Review Spring 2016 "Do Not Forget Me" in Asimov's March 2016 "Mutability" in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Ed. Rich Horton "Beehive, Birdbath, Gas Station Flowers" in Minetta Review Fall 2015 "The Cigarette Machine" in Pinball #5 "To the Savages" in Antiphon #12 Mutability in Galaktika 311 (Hungarian) February 2016 "Mutability" in Asimov's June 2015 Two Suburban Sonnets in The Collapsar Suburban Triptych in Juked Number 11 Letters to Cities in the Fall in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics Issue 10 "Casting" in Weave Magazine Issue 11 " Confluence," "Varangian," "The Wooden Sword," "My Uncle's Grand Tour," "Wakhan (Narasimha)" in Elohi Gadugi Three Suburban Sonnets in Clapboard House Journal Three Suburban Sonnets (Eclectica Magazine April/May 2013) Streptomyces (PiF Magazine December 2012) A Fat Girl in Paris (PiF Magazine December 2012) Custer Shoots His Horse (PiF Magazine November 2012) The Idiot Birds (nthposition.com) Three Suburban Sonnets (Able Muse Volume 15) Old School (Beloit Poetry Review, Summer 2013) "Never have a town named after you" (Phantom Limb, Summer 2013) Present in the Past (Shadow Road Quarterly, Fall 2013) "Catch" in Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset "Cutting Wood, Carrying Water" in Crimewave 4: Mood Indigo "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" in Cemetery Dance #38, 2002 "The Bat House" in Ellery Queen April 2002 American Graveyards TTA Press 2001 "Population Zero" in Blue Murder 20, 2001 "Sleepwalking" in Blue Murder 18, 2001 "Saturday Night Special" in Ellery Queen February 2001 "The Ride" in The Edge: Tales of Suspense #5, 1999 "The Watchman" in Berkeley Fiction Review 18, 1998 "The Ropes of the Lasso Inn" Deathrealm Winter 1996/1997 "Waiting" Lines in the Sand 1996 |
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