Ray
was born in Canton, Ohio in 1952. He has been a naturalist,
a science teacher and a park ranger. He lives in Chattanooga,
Tennessee where he works in the tourism industry and is a former
president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild. Ray underwent coronary
bypass surgery on October 4 of 2007. He has produced one fiction
chapbook, Billy and Other Stories and is currently
completing a chapbook titled First Days: Poems Written while
Recovering from Open Heart Surgery.
Selected
Publications:
“Nature’s
Bookshelf” is Ray’s regular column in The Hellbender
Press; Knoxville, Tennessee. Each installment is a profile
of an environmental author or nature writer. The column began
with the November/December issue, 2005
Ray won Second Place in the 2007 poetry contest
of the Tennessee Writers Alliance. He read
his poem, “Glen Falls Trail” at the awards ceremony
of the Southern Festival of Books at Legislative Plaza, Nashville,
Tennessee.
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and motivate the craft of writing in all genres. Chattanooga Writers Guild is
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