Literature – Fiction
Minneapolis, MN
August 2024, four weeks
A speculative fiction writer currently writing his first science fiction/fantasy novel (working title: Trine), Ray has received support and space to perform, share, and workshop poetry, plays, and fiction through the Minnesota State Arts Board, Tofte Lake Center, Lambda Literary Center, Tin House, and VONA Voices. Ray’s work is about power structures, queer and trans embodiment, intimacy, and violence. Ray says, “I see my work in the lineage of queer of color speculative fiction visionaries such as Samuel Delany and Larissa Lai.”
During his residency, Ray gave a reading of his work at Fair Trade Books.