Ayana Gray

Ayana Gray is an American novelist from Atlanta, Georgia, who now lives and writes in Arkansas. Her debut, the young adult fantasy Beasts of Prey (2021), inspired by West African mythology, was a New York Times bestseller and began a trilogy continued in Beasts of Ruin (2022) and Beasts of War (2024). I, Medusa (2025) is her first novel for adults.