“Ringing with echoes of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid‘s Tale and Octavia Butler‘s Parable of the Sower, Inez Ray's Buzzard is a contemporary masterpiece of speculative fiction. With exquisite world building, powerfully rendered heroines steeped in spiritual midwifery, and lyrically beautiful writing, this is a marvelous debut. It’s also a warning call to us all. In these dark days of corporate malevolence and misogynistic fascism, Ray's future feels all too real. Read this book before it’s too late, and let's begin building a better future together.”
- Alexander Weinstein, Author of Children of the New World and Universal love
Its 2086. Corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last person alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.
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.
Where to find me…
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