Ray Ring

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Ray H. Ring is an American novelist and journalist. Ring has been based in the American West since the 1970s, with stints in Arizona, Colorado and Montana.

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Novels

Journalism Awards

Personal life

Ring attended six universities, and earned a bachelor's in journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1979. He took creative writing courses from William Tenn at Penn State and Buzz Poverman at the University of Arizona. He also designed and taught a course on environmental politics at Montana State University-Bozeman, as an adjunct in 2006-2007.

In his 20s, Ring held blue-collar jobs including city firefighter, taxi driver, and head of maintenance at the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station.

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