Richard’s poetry has been published multiple times in Impossible Archetype and has appeared in The Laurel Review, Manzano Mountain Review, HiRISE’s MarsPoetica, and Star*Line. His fiction has been published in Cold Creek Review and is forthcoming from The House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature. His essays about fairy tales and technology have been published online at Tiny Donkey and Fairy Tale Review’s “Fairy-Tale Files.” Richard earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 2015. Following that, he began taking writing workshops at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and The Writers Studio Tucson. Richard now teaches writing workshops and is a Tucson Poetry Festival board member. Recently, he has been participating in the various NYC Midnight fiction writing challenges and in National Novel Writing Month 2019.

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MEMBERSHIPS

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Tucson Poetry Festival

Board Member beginning November 2019.

Horror Writers Association (HWA)

Supporting Member beginning 2019.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA)

Lifetime Member as of 2019. Member 2016 – present.

Critters Workshop

Member on and off since 1997.

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HONORS

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Shadow Award 2019

Short listed for “Burning Baby” and “The Pretty Men”

Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards

Finalist in 2018, semi-finalist in 2019

The Writers Studio 4th Annual Write -to-Read Contest (2018)

3rd Place for “Coward’s Unsent Query Letter Including Chapter Summary of Memoir Not Written”
Judge: Alice Hatcher

The Writers Studio 3rd Annual Write-to-Read Contest (2017)

1st Place for “These Are the Animals You May Eat”
Judge: Ted McLoof

2014 Hattie Lockett Undergraduate Student Poetry Award

One of three winners for “He can wear hats,” “The Talents,” and “The Divorce of Lilith and Samuel”
Judge: Karen Brennan
Learn more about Hattie Greene Lockett

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WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

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Tucson Festival of Books Masters Workshop

2019 Poetry Instructor: Marilyn Chin
2018 Poetry Instructor: Mary Jo Bang

The Writers Studio Tucson

The Writers Studio provides local and online writer workshops that focus on persona writing and narrative technique. There is a chapter in Tucson. Completed Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master workshops and craft classes (2016 – present)
Instructors: Lela Scott MacNeil, Philip Ivory, Janelle Drumwright, and Reneé Bibby

The University of Arizona Poetry Center

The University of Arizona Poetry Center provides a library and archive of poetry as well as readings and other literary events, including community workshops and craft classes, at the Helen S. Schaefer Building. Completed various workshops in poetry and screenwriting:

• Writing the Wild: A Poetry Intensive with Pamela Uschuk (Spring 2019)
• Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Maurya Simon (Spring 2019)
• Fail Better: Creative Submitting with Rachel Mindell (Summer 2018)
• Characters Who Do Things: Writing Active Protagonists on Page, Stage, and Screen with Ted McLoof (Summer 2018)
• Revisioning with Laura Maher (Fall 2017)
• Screenwriting: The Basics with Ted McLoof (Summer 2016)
• Are We There Yet? Pacing and Payoff in Narrative Verse with Adrian Matejka (Summer 2016)

The University of Arizona English Department

B.A. Degree in English & Creative Writing (December 2015)
Instructors: Laura Miller, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Brianna Scott MacNeil, Joel Smith, Kate Bernheimer, Susan Briante, Brent Hendricks, Kendra Mullison, and Farid Matuk

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PAST PROJECTS

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Frontier Channel

The Frontier Channel was a news and commentary website about “The Great Frontiers of cyberspace, outer space, the ocean, and destinations in between.”

RADIO Frontier Channel

RADIO Frontier Channel was a podcast from the Frontier Channel in 2005 that included science and technology news and interviews with scientists at the University of Arizona.