Meet the Author
Richard Lee Zuras earned his MFA as a McNeese scholar under the auspices of Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction, Robert Olen Butler, and two-time Iowa Poetry Prize winner, John Wood. His stories and poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals including Story Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Weber Journal, Big Muddy, Jabberwock Review, Lake Effect, Chicago Quarterly Review, Laurel Review, Yemassee, Xavier Review, Confrontation, Red Rock Review, and Passages North. Richard has held writing conference scholarships at Bread Loaf, Wesleyan University, and Pirate’s Alley Faulkner, and is the author of the novels The Bastard Year, and The Honeymoon Corruption as well as the poetry collection Birds at the Post Office (all Brandylane Publishers). Richard is a professor of English & creative writing at the University of Maine at Presque Isle where he has taught creative writing for more than twenty years. He lives with his wife, Kelly, two sons Everett and Holden, and a red Siberian husky named Indigo.