Jerome Richard

JEROME RICHARD is a retired professor of English (Western Washington University) now writing fiction and social commentary. His novel, The Kiss of the Prison Dancer, was a runner-up for the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Award. The Architect was a winner in the 2014 Seattle Public Library contest for self-published books about Seattle. He also edited the anthology The Good Life. Other works have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Iconoclast, The Humanist, Tikkun, East Coast Literary Review, Free State Review, The Main Street Rag, and elsewhere. He studied creative writing at San Francisco State University and now live in Seattle.