Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for âBest First Novel,â and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Los Angeles Times âRay Bradbury Prize.â Called âone of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fictionâ by Locus, Naylerâs stories have been published in Asimovâs Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Vice, and Nightmare, as well as in many âBest Ofâ anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readersâ Poll and the Asimovâs Readersâ Award, and his novelette âSarcophagusâ was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Born in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and Vietnamese. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington Universityâs Elliott School of International Affairs. He holds an MA in global diplomacy from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London.