About the Author

A native Mississippian, Douglas Ray is author of He Will Laugh (Lethe Press, 2012), which traces the intense love between two young men from the excitement of their first meeting to the aftermath of a tragic suicide. A former Lambda Literary Foundation Poetry Fellow, he received his BA summa cum laude in classics and English and MFA in creative writing from The University of Mississippi, where he edited The Yalobusha Review. He teaches literature and writing at Indian Springs School, an independent boarding and day school in Birmingham, Alabama.