About Me

Audacia Ray (they/them) is a bisexual and nonbinary writer and advocate with 20 years of experience in LGBTQ, sex worker, feminist, and anti-violence organizing, communications, and policy work. In a recent turn toward writing fiction, Dacia has become a Tin House Winter Workshop alumn and has published short stories in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Superstition Review, and Stone Canoe. Previously, they hosted the Red Umbrella Diaries, a monthly sex worker storytelling series, for five years; they executive produced a documentary of the same name that screened at DOC NYC and internationally. Dacia's directorial debut film, The Bi Apple, won a Feminist Porn Award in 2007 and was recommended by O Magazine. Their nonfiction debut book, Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration, was published by Seal Press in 2007 and their now-defunct blog was named Best Sex Blog by the Village Voice in 2011. 

Audacia is the Interim Executive Director at the New York City Anti-Violence Project after spending six years as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy, has led storytelling and sex worker rights campaigns at the Red Umbrella Project, and edited $pread magazine and its respective best-of anthology published by Feminist Press.

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Dacia has a MA in American Studies from Columbia University and a BA in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang at the New School. They have also worked in museums, volunteer distributing free queer books in Brooklyn by bike, are an aspiring naturalist, and read about 150 books a year. They spend their time in Brooklyn and the Catskill Mountains