Ray Nayler

RAY NAYLER is a Hugo and Locus Award winning author. Born in Quebec and raised in California, he lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo as a Foreign Service officer, a Peace Corps volunteer, and an international development worker. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and Vietnamese, and Spanish. In Vietnam he was Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. He was international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was most recently a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy.

Ray lives in Washington, DC with his wife Anna, their daughter Lydia, and two rescued cats – one Tajik, one American. ​He is represented by Seth Fishman at the Gernert Company.