Ray Nayler

I was born in Desbiens, Quebec, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving my degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I subsequently moved to Toronto for a few years before serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, from 2003-2005.

Since then I have split my time between Moscow and Central Asia (with assignments in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan). I've traveled widely in Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as other parts of the world.

My fiction has been published in a wide range of magazines including The Berkeley Fiction Review, Crimewave, Cemetery Dance, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. My story "Man in the Dark" received a "Distinguished Mystery Story of 2002" mention in Otto Penzler's Best American Mystery Stories 2003.

I am the author of American Graveyards, a novel published by TTA Press.

My travel writing and nonfiction has been published at www.nthposition.com and other online journals. I currently live in Moscow, Russia. For a sample of my fiction, here's a piece that was published both in Crimewave and online at Fantastic Metropolis.

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