Gen Del Raye is a translator, fiction writer, and poet and was trained as an oceanographer. He was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, and lives in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, Best Small Fictions 2017, and Best New Poets 2019, among others. He is the winner of the Force Majeure Flash Contest, Up North Poetry Prize, and Great Midwest Poetry Contest and was awarded a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.

"Del Raye's thoughtful collection explores loss, relationships, racial tensions, and war, and its aftermath, in surreal, tender, and often humorous ways that will keep readers captivated until the end."-Booklist, starred review “Gen Del Raye’s Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a moving, shape-shifting collection that examines life at the margins of belonging. Haunted by war, ghosts, sea creatures, and existence itself, Del Raye’s characters are straddling worlds, wedging themselves into whatever space they can fit. With the emotional precision and imagery of a poet, and the nimble ear of a translator, Del Raye’s prose is charming, surprising, and abundant in empathy.”-Cecily Wong, author of Diamond Head and Kaleidoscope

• 1Hideto, in Motion and at RestHideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001My Mother Takes Me to a Public BathYukari Kneeling in My Mother’s Garden, 1994Chie and George, 2015Half-BlindMy Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown2The Mystery of Animal GriefNishina Sekio in a Tunnel AlonePreparations, 2015Home BurialHousefireSuicide Drills, 1945The Grandma InvasionWe Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of GraceNishina Sekio in a Broken MachineHarvest MouseHack ScienceA Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its FaceSynonyms for Climate ChangeBoundless DeepMy Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the SeaNishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams3My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980Or Go Further BackElasticoWhat My Mother Doesn’t SayThe Failings of Our FathersIncredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and AgainAcknowledgmentsSelected Sources

Gen Del Raye is a translator, fiction writer, and poet and was trained as an oceanographer. He was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, and lives in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, Best Small Fictions 2017, and Best New Poets 2019, among others. He is the winner of the Force Majeure Flash Contest, Up North Poetry Prize, and Great Midwest Poetry Contest and was awarded a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.

"Del Raye's thoughtful collection explores loss, relationships, racial tensions, and war, and its aftermath, in surreal, tender, and often humorous ways that will keep readers captivated until the end."-Booklist, starred review “Gen Del Raye’s Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a moving, shape-shifting collection that examines life at the margins of belonging. Haunted by war, ghosts, sea creatures, and existence itself, Del Raye’s characters are straddling worlds, wedging themselves into whatever space they can fit. With the emotional precision and imagery of a poet, and the nimble ear of a translator, Del Raye’s prose is charming, surprising, and abundant in empathy.”-Cecily Wong, author of Diamond Head and Kaleidoscope

• 1Hideto, in Motion and at RestHideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001My Mother Takes Me to a Public BathYukari Kneeling in My Mother’s Garden, 1994Chie and George, 2015Half-BlindMy Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown2The Mystery of Animal GriefNishina Sekio in a Tunnel AlonePreparations, 2015Home BurialHousefireSuicide Drills, 1945The Grandma InvasionWe Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of GraceNishina Sekio in a Broken MachineHarvest MouseHack ScienceA Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its FaceSynonyms for Climate ChangeBoundless DeepMy Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the SeaNishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams3My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980Or Go Further BackElasticoWhat My Mother Doesn’t SayThe Failings of Our FathersIncredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and AgainAcknowledgmentsSelected Sources