MONA LEE RAY
MonaTheRaven is a Filipina author, performer, and multidisciplinary artist with a loyalty to storytelling and little regard for keeping it in one medium. Her work moves through writing, painting, movement, and film—wherever the story belongs.
Raised in a military family, Mona learned to build worlds wherever she landed. Art was her first language; it remains how she gives form to what can be difficult to say. Her work explores the complicated terrain of healing: grief with a sense of humor, tenderness that has grown teeth, and the unfamiliar business of feeling at home in yourself. She creates so others might recognize something of their own lives and feel less alone in the parts that resist an easy explanation.
Drawn to the surreal and unsettling, Mona makes room for beauty, mischief, and the contradictions we carry. Over more than a decade, she has published books, worked in film and performance, taught creative storytelling at Stanford University, and coached movement art to artists including ((( O ))).
A mother of three, she builds her creative life amid the demands and small revelations of the everyday. The occupation box remains a problem.
Storyteller will do.
For performances, workshops, and creative collaborations, select CONTACT in the menu.
Press
CanvasRebel Magazine Interview:
Women We’ve Been Waiting For | YouTube Video Interview with Alix Lebec:
Finding Her Courage Podcast Episode:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BLpeNuTxCNaGkYAmPxkGi?si=78_TPsuYQKmQzdXUID8Xbw
Step inside my Patreon 🎧
Making art can feel a little like building a strange world alone in a quiet room. Patreon is where I open the door and invite you inside.
Here, you’ll find early chapters, exclusive audiobooks, notes from my writing desk, and glimpses of stories taking shape—from Norah Wolfe’s universe to the worlds I haven’t introduced yet. You’ll also find my growing collection of guided meditations for rest, imagination, and reconnecting with your own creative life.
It’s a little like visiting my studio: manuscripts on the desk, something strange taking shape in the corner, and a quiet place waiting for you by the window. Come for the stories, stay for a meditation, or spend a little time with the messy, magical process behind it all.
Your support helps me make room for this work within the fullness of motherhood and everyday life—to keep writing, creating, recording, and sharing what comes next.