Writer, birth worker, feral auntie…

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.

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 will be appearing in person and volunteering at Story Island Writer’s Conference in November 2026. 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 children, dancing with her partner or throwing a stick for her two dogs. 

Sometime soon when I get my sh*t together , I will send out a periodic email with information about where you can find my work, in-person and online events, and workshops. I promise you will only hear from me very sporadically!