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name: Audacia Ray
about: Audacia Ray (they/she) is a queer non-binary femme whose short fiction has been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Penumbra Online, and others. Her non-fiction work has been widely anthologized, most recently in in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival and Hustling Verse. Previously, they were an editor at Utne-Reader Award Winning $pread magazine and the literary journal Prose &amp; Lore, and her non-fiction book Naked on the Internet was published by Seal Press in 2007. They are a former sex worker who serves their LGBTQ community as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the NYC Anti-Violence Project. Previously, they served as founding Executive Director of the Red Umbrella Project, where they hosted the mont Audacia Ray (they/she) is a queer non-binary femme whose short fiction has been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Penumbra Online, and others. Her non-fiction work has been widely anthologized, most recently in in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival and Hustling Verse. Previously, they were an editor at Utne-Reader Award Winning $pread magazine and the literary journal Prose &amp; Lore, and her non-fiction book Naked on the Internet was published by Seal Press in 2007. They are a former sex worker who serves their LGBTQ community as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the NYC Anti-Violence Project. Previously, they served as founding Executive Director of the Red Umbrella Project, where they hosted the monthly sex work storytelling series the Red Umbrella Diaries, and executive produced a documentary of the same name. Dacia has a MA in American Studies from Columbia University and a BA in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang at the New School, and she spends her time in Brooklyn and the Catskill Mountains. ...more