Born in Illinois, raised in Southern Indiana, and now living in St. Louis, Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collection Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005), as well as several chapbooks, including Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002), Tastes Like Chicken and Other Meditations (Snark Publishing, 2004), and Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets! (Snark Publishing, 2005).  

His poems, stories, and essays have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," Best American Poetry 2006, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, StoryQuarterly, Tar River Poetry, The Sun, and many other periodicals and anthologies.

He earned his MFA at the Brief-Residency MFA Writing Program at Spalding University. He teaches at Washington University and St. Louis Community College, reviews books for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and, for the last 13 years, has served as editor of River Styx.  

He has been nominated for dozens of Pushcart prizes but has never won, not even once. He lives in the historic Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis with his daughter Natalie, his wife Kara and their big black dog Otis.

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