aegor ray

aegor ray is a writer, freak, and organizer for the decriminalization of sex work in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a 2018 Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Fellow in poetry, a 2021 and 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop participant, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Scholar. aegor has received generous support from granters like the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Waterers, and the Jerome Foundation, and residency opportunities from Tofte Lake Center and the Anderson Center at Tower View. aegor was an arts writing fellow for MNArtists.com, a platform of the Walker Arts Museum, and wrote, co-directed, and performed in DAKSHINA, a multimedia performance, for Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival in June 2025. His writing interests span queer and trans desire and terror, empire and its long-arching shadows, and the experiences of consuming and being consumed. aegor is writing his first novel. He is a Sagittarius.