Raised on Long Island, New York, having received his engineering degree from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Ray continues his current employment in electronic systems maintenance for textile manufacturing. He has spent the last three decades in the south where he has participated in all facets of community theatre, earned his private pilot license, and raised two children. He has also self-published a memoir, Always Yearning, of his and his older brother’s flying experiences. Nearing retirement, his current passion (besides writing) is relaxing with his wife, Robbin, at home in North Carolina and cruising on the lake in their pontoon boat.