Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for тАЬBest First Novel,тАЭ and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Los Angeles Times тАЬRay Bradbury Prize.тАЭ Called тАЬone of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fictionтАЭ by Locus, NaylerтАЩs stories have been published in AsimovтАЩs Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Vice, and Nightmare, as well as in many тАЬBest OfтАЭ anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld ReadersтАЩ Poll and the AsimovтАЩs ReadersтАЩ Award, and his novelette тАЬSarcophagusтАЭ 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 UniversityтАЩs 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.