Writer, editor, birth worker…
Inez Ray is a California born, Puget Sound based writer. She has Bachelors of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
Her futurist stories are populated by characters that aren’t always heroes, often reckoning with systems of power and control, with echoes and reverberations into, our own world.
She is represented by Brenna English-Loeb of Transatlantic Agency.
Her own struggle with endometriosis drew her to reproductive health advocacy. The birth of her own children pulled her into birth work. After working as a doula and midwife assistant for over a decade and witnessing the horrific state perinatal healthcare in America she was pulled further into advocacy and then back to writing.
She is a member of the BARN Writer’s Studio and an editor for the BARN Writer’s Studio Annual Collection. She is a founding member of Content Hospital, a rowdy critique group of speculative fiction writers based in Seattle. You can find them hiding in a dark corner of a conference.
When she is not inviting readers to think acutely about the future of humanity, she is parenting her three children, dancing with her partner or throwing a stick for her two dogs.
Debut Novel
Buzzard is set for release in the fall of 2026 with Left Unread and Bindery Books. It’s a feminist dystopian Sci-Fi adventure about the last midwife in the west who can perform abortions.
It’s 2120, the infamous Maeven Bastet—Mae —is hiding out deep the Sierras, hoping to someday be reunited with her twin boys, taken from her when she was arrested for providing abortions at her clinic.
Her chance arrives in the form of an eager young lawyer, Sona, who is on a mission to take down Mae’s former jailer, Obsityan.
Mae knows some dark secrets about Obsityan’s leadership that could halt it’s unchecked expansion and monopoly on water and power in the western territories. But sharing them would put her and Obsityan’s other victims in danger.
Sona and her employers at the beautiful InfiniCity know the locations of Mae’s boys.
They strike a deal. Mae must dredge the mistakes of her past to try and save the future and see her family again.
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