About the Author
Richard Bentley grew up in the midwest, and attended Yale and the Vermont College MFA Program. He served as Chief Planner for the Mayor's Office of Housing in Boston, has taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, and currently teaches at Western New England College. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts and is the husband of Carolyn and father of Nicholas and Julia. His poetry has received Pushcart Prize recognition. He was a prize-winner in the Paris Review / Paris Writers Workshop International Fiction Awards for 1994.