Audacia Ray (they/them) is a writer and advocate who has thrown in their lot with queers, survivors, nature weirdos, and readers. Dacia has supported community safety planning efforts at Drag Story Hour events since 2021, bikes the Nonbinarian Book Bike around Brooklyn to give away free queer books, has worked at the New York City Anti-Violence Project for the past seven years and is an aspiring naturalist.

A longtime memoir and nonfiction writer, Audacia shifted their writing practice to fiction in 2021.They are a Tin House Winter Workshop alumn with short stories published in The Hopper, Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, Superstition Review, and Stone Canoe, and they are at work on a queer, intergenerational novel.

As a sex worker rights advocate Dacia was known for leading sex worker rights campaigns as founding director of the Red Umbrella Project, being an editor of $pread magazine, and hosting the monthly storytelling series the Red Umbrella Diaries (as well as appearing in and executive producing a feature documentary of the same name). Their first book, Naked on the Internet, was published by Seal Press in 2007 and in that same year they won a Feminist Porn Award for Best Bisexual Scene with their directorial debut The Bi Apple.