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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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