Contact Info: Ray822@hotmail.com
Booklist has dubbed Brian Ray "a talent to watch."
His first novel Through the Pale Door won a 2010
IPPY award for best regional fiction. Ray's short
fiction has been nominated for inclusion in the
Pushcart Prize anthology and Best New American
Voices. Ray is a winner of the 2007 SC Fiction
Project and a finalist for the Pirate's Alley
Faulkner Prize. His work has appeared in Green
Mountains Review, Timbercreek Review, Louisiana
Review, and New South.
Author Trivia
Favorite film makers: Burton, Varda, Wertmuller, Lynch,
Bergman, Fellini.
Favorite writers: Gaiman, DeLillo, Atwood, Robinson, Marquez,
Pynchon, Poe, Shakespeare.
Worked at a steel mill for four summers.
Passes time by sneaking through abandoned buildings (prisons,
asylums, etc) and ghost-towns.
Used to write for an all-crime newspaper called Snitch, covering
cold cases and serial killers.
As a kid, shook hands with Adam West and told him he thought
Michael Keaton was a slightly better Batman.
Drinks coffee like Voltaire, twenty cups a day.
Is a creature of the night. Goes running under moonlight.
Used to play the piano and upright bass.
Currently writing a third novel.
Booklist has dubbed Brian Ray "a talent to watch."
His first novel Through the Pale Door won a 2010
IPPY award for best regional fiction. Ray's short
fiction has been nominated for inclusion in the
Pushcart Prize anthology and Best New American
Voices. Ray is a winner of the 2007 SC Fiction
Project and a finalist for the Pirate's Alley
Faulkner Prize. His work has appeared in Green
Mountains Review, Timbercreek Review, Louisiana
Review, and New South.
Author Trivia
Favorite film makers: Burton, Varda, Wertmuller, Lynch,
Bergman, Fellini.
Favorite writers: Gaiman, DeLillo, Atwood, Robinson, Marquez,
Pynchon, Poe, Shakespeare.
Worked at a steel mill for four summers.
Passes time by sneaking through abandoned buildings (prisons,
asylums, etc) and ghost-towns.
Used to write for an all-crime newspaper called Snitch, covering
cold cases and serial killers.
As a kid, shook hands with Adam West and told him he thought
Michael Keaton was a slightly better Batman.
Drinks coffee like Voltaire, twenty cups a day.
Is a creature of the night. Goes running under moonlight.
Used to play the piano and upright bass.
Currently writing a third novel.
The Life of Brian
