Audacia Ray
Writer and LGBTQ Advocate
Audacia Ray (they/she) is a Tin House 2023 alum whose short stories and creative non-fiction have been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Penumbra, Superstition Review and others. They were an editor of $pread magazine and its respective best-of anthology published by Feminist Press. They are a queer non-binary femme and 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.

New: Short Fiction

Litro Magazine
A bisexual private detective seeks justice for a lesbian who is the victim of a shooting by her new girlfriend's cop ex-girlfriend.
August 2022

Penumbra Online
A queer fable about the formation of rocks and the pressures of caretaking.
August 2022

Necessary Fiction
A woman takes care of fawns at a wildlife rescue while struggling with intimate partner violence at home.
May 2022