Over his professional lifetime, Raymond Grant has been a teacher, a government employee, a corporate VP, an entrepreneur, and a financial planner. He even picked up a Ph.D. along the way. He retired from all that about six years ago.
Ray and his wife live along the coast of Southern California. After years of writing scientific and engineering reports, sometimes as long as long novels, he finds short stories to be an enjoyment and a challenge. When writing a short story, every word counts, mainly because there just aren’t a lot of words to set the scene and deliver the punch line. When he isn't writing, he enjoys designing and creating works of leaded glass.
Ray is an award-winning author of short stories and poems. His work has appeared in Yarnspinner & Wordweavers Newsletter, The Fiction Flyer, Apollo’s Lyre Writers and Readers eZine, Flash Tales Magazine, Coffee Cramp Magazine, Flashshot eZine, Quiction on Line, and The Muse Marquee.
He is a Tri- Studio author, Moderator of the MuseItUp Club, member of Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Zoetrope Virtual Studio. His short romantic story, Music Lovers, received a top ten award in the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. His poem, The Ship, and his flash fiction story, A Strange Feeling, each received a top ten award in the 2005 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. He co-edits and contributes articles and stories to The Fiction Flyer Magazine, which received a top ten award in the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll.
SHORT STORIES:
"Absurdity," by Raymond Grant at Yarnspinners and Wordweavers Newsletter by Red Engine Press. June 2007. http://www.redenginepress.com/newsletter.htm.
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia," by Raymond Grant at Apollo’s Lyre eZine. Special Spring Issue, 2007. www.apolloslyre.com.
“The Apprentice,” by Raymond Grant at Flash Tales Magazine, the final issue. April 2007. http://www. flash-tales.com. This story is taken from the collection of short stories in Don’t be Impatient…Read a Short Story published by Red Engine Press, Spring 2007.
“Stardust,” by Raymond Grant at Flash Tales Magazine, the final issue. April 2007. http://www.flash- tales.com. This story is taken from the collection of short stories in Don’t be Impatient…Read a Short Story published by Red Engine Press, Spring 2007.
“Washington Hum,” by Raymond Grant at Coffee Cramp eZine, January-February 2007 issue. http: //coffeecrampmagazine.tripod.com/
“Blue Moon,” by Raymond Grant at Flash Tales Magazine. January, 2007. http:// www.flash-tales. com.
“River Love,” by Raymond Grant at Yarnspinner & Wordweavers Newsletter by Red Engine Press. January-February issue. January 2007. http://www.redenginepress.com/newsletter.htm.
“Fired Up.” By Raymond Grant at Apollos’s Lyre eZine, January 2007. Special 2007 issue. www. apolloslyre.com.
“The Announcement,” by Raymond Grant at Yarnspinner & Wordweavers Newsletter by Red Engine Press. September-October issue. September, 2006. http://www.redenginepress.com/newsletter.htm.
“All in a Day’s Work,” a character sketch, by Raymond Grant at Coffee Cramp eZine, November- December 2006 issue. http://coffeecrampmagazine.tripod.com/
“Short Stuff,” by Raymond Grant at www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm on 17 November 2006.
“The Terminal Paper,” by Raymond Grant at www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm on 24 October 2006 .
“Walking East,” by Raymond Grant at Apollos’s Lyre eZine, Fall 2006 issue. on 20 October,2006 . www.apolloslyre.com.
“Accessories,” by Raymond Grant at www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm on 7 October 2006 .
“A Bagel by Any Other Name,” by Raymond Grant at Yarnspinner & Wordweaver Newsletter by Red Engine Press. September-October issue. September, 2006. http://www.redenginepress. com/newsletter.htm.
“A New Look,” by Raymond Grant at the debut issue of Flash Tales Magazine 1 September 2006 . www.flash-tales.com.
“Eggplant Power,” by Raymond Grant at The Muse Marquee, the September 2006 issue. http: themusemarquee.tripod.com
“On Leaving,” by Raymond Grant at Coffee Cramp eZine, March-April 2006.
“The Cat’s Meow,” by Raymond Grant at Quictiononline.net on 19 February 2006 .
“Solo Flight,” by Raymond Grant at Quictiononline.net on 8 January 2006 .
“Another Dance,”a short story of creative non-fiction, by Raymond Grant at Coffee Cramp eZine, Debut Issue, January-February 2006. {http://coffeecrampmagazine.tripod.com}: “All we request is first time rights to display your work on our site for three months. All rights are maintained by you. If you would like us to remove a submission from our archives, let us know and we’ll be happy to oblige.”
“A Strange Feeling” (micro-flash fiction version) by Raymond Grant at Quictiononline.net on 30 October 2005 as inaugural (under 99 word) Flash Story for Micro-Minuets new site feature. This story stimulated the editor, Ramon Collins, to initiate a micro-flash section of his publication called Micro Minuets.
“Solo Flight,” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 29 October 2005 .
“Solo Flight,” by Raymond Grant at Flashshot.tripod.com on 28 October 2005 . Will appear in POD in “Flashshot 3” (December,2006).
“Staying Abreast,” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 15 October 2005 .
“Staying Abreast,” by Raymond Grant at Flashshot.tripod.com on 14 October 2005 .
“Time Traveler” by Raymond Grant at Flashshot.tripod.com on 29 September 2005 .
“The Sphere” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 1 August 2005 .
“The Cat’s Meow” by Raymond Grant at Flashshot.tripod.com on 29 July 2005 .
“A Strange Feeling” (micro-flash fiction version) by Raymond Grant at Flashshot.tripod.com on 2 June 2005 .
“A Strange Feeling,” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 3 June 2005 .
“A Letter to Mom” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 20 May 2005.
POETRY:
“Whispers,” by Raymond Grant at the Muse Valentine’s Day Anthology on February 2007.
“Shadow People” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 20 June 2006 .
“Inside Out” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on 5 May 2006 .
“The Weaver” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on September 2, 2005 .
“The Ship” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on January 25, 2005 .
“Whispers” by Raymond Grant at Tri-Studio.com on January 25, 2005 .
BOOKS:
“Don’t be Impatient…Read a Short Story!” by Raymond Grant at Red Engine Press, September, 2007.
“Whispers,” by Raymond Grant, The Muse Presents: Matters of the Heart, An Anthology of Poetry and Short Stories for Valentine’s Day. Edited by Lea Schizas, Febuary, 2007.
“Flashes in the Pan, Fifty Short Stories for the Impatient,” by Raymond Grant at Double Dragon Publishing and Lulu.com. May, 2006. (Five Year Contract).
BOOK REVIEWS:
“The Rock of Realm” by Lea Schizas on 7 March 2006 .
AWARDS:
Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2006: Music Lovers, top ten finisher (8th place), Category: Short Story –Romance. February 2007. Raymond Grant. Music Lovers is found in Flashes in the Pan: Fifty Short Stories for the Impatient.
Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2006: The Fiction Flyer, top-ten finisher (4th place), Category: Fiction Publications. February 2007. Kathe and Raymond Gogolewski, Editors.
MuseItUp Club Peer Awards: The Muse Award for Most Valued Member for 2006 to Ray Gogolewski. January 2007.
MuseItUp Club Peer Awards: The Muse Award for Best Writer’s Site for 2006 to Kathe and Ray Gogolewski’s Tri-Studio.com. January 2007
Moderator, MuseFlashSuccess Group (flash fiction writer’s circle) of the MuseItUp Club – June, 2006.
January 2006, Preditors and Editors Readers Poll 2005:
Category: Poem: 6th Place for “The Ship”
Category: Short Story-Other: 6th Place for “A Strange Feeling”
December 2005, Outstanding Member of Publisher’s and Writer’s of San Diego for 2005.
