Curve

by Nicca Ray, Michele McDannold (Editor)

a book of poetry by Nicca Ray

Nicca Ray is the author of two books, the memoir, Ray by Ray: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray (Three Rooms Press) and the poetry collection, Back Seat Baby (Poison Fang Books). Her poetry has recently appeared in Maintenant #15 & #16 (Three Rooms Press), Paper Teller Diorama (Great Weather for Media), Love Love Magazine Issues #4 & #5 , the anthology NYC from the Inside, Artedolia, Moon and Sun Issue #10 & #11 and poetrybay , January 2022. She is a 2020 Acker Award recipient for memoir and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

92 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2023

About the author

Nicca Ray was raised in Los Angeles, not far from the ­Griffith Park Planetarium where scenes from her father, Nicholas Ray’s, most famous film, Rebel Without a Cause, were shot. First inspired by the New York Dolls performing on the Real Don Steele Show, she started going to clubs on the Sunset Strip when she was fifteen, and became heavily involved in the L.A. punk scene when she was seventeen. At age twenty, she began work on getting sober, and shortly after, moved to New York, where, in her early thirties, was accepted into the New School University. While a student she published short stories in various journals, made two short films—including one that screened at the New York Underground Film Festival—and starred in Cutting Moments, the first film in the underground gore classic series, Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America, directed by Douglas Buck. After graduating in 1999, at thirty-eight years old, she devoted her life to researching and interviewing people about her father’s life, for which Ray by Ray is a culmination. She currently lives in New York City.