Audacia Ray (they/she) is a queer nonbinary femme whose short fiction has been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Penumbra Online, and others. She was an editor of $pread magazine and its respective best-of anthology published by Feminist Press. They are a former sex worker who serves their LGBTQ community as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the NYC Anti-Violence Project. Dacia spends her time in Brooklyn and the Catskill Mountains.