Ray Nayler

1976–

Ray Nayler is a writer and diplomat born in Alma, Quebec, and raised in California. He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, took a master's in global diplomacy at SOAS, University of London, and a PhD in creative writing at the University of Essex. After service in the Peace Corps he spent around two decades abroad as a US Foreign Service officer in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Vietnam, and later advised NOAA on marine protected areas. His debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; his novella The Tusks of Extinction won a Hugo.

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