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.