Author, podcast host, birth worker…
Inez Ray has Bachelors of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Experiencing the horrific state of perinatal care in America drew her to birth work and reproductive rights advocacy and then eventually back to writing.
She is a member of the BARN Writer’s Studio leadership and an editor for their BARN’s Annual Collection. She is a founding member of Content Hospital, a rowdy critique group of speculative fiction writers.
Her stories are populated by characters that aren’t always heroes, often reckoning with systems of power and control, with echoes of, and reverberations into, our own world.
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
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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