Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler is the author of the Locus Award winning novel The Mountain in the Sea. Positively reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Publisher’s Weekly and many others, The Mountain in the Sea was a best book of the year at The London Times, and has been named one of Esquire’s best science fiction books of all time. Mountain has been translated into over a dozen languages. Ray’s second book, the novella The Tusks of Extinction, was published in January 2024. Amal El-Mohtar of The New York Times called it ” A compact novella that reads like a superb science fiction inversion of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.'” The Washington Post wrote that the book is “both breathtaking and heartbreaking” and Publishers Weekly called Tusks is “impassioned and impressive . . . an uncompromising climate fiction that strikes like a spear to the gut.” It was named a Best Book of the Year by both The New York Times and The Washington Post.
For nearly half his life, Ray has lived and worked outside the United States in the Foreign Service, the Peace Corps, and in international development. He was Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. He most recently served as international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and as a diplomatic fellow and visiting scholar at the George Washington University’s Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. He lives in Washington, DC.
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