Jeff Richards is a native Washingtonian who moved to Denver recently with his wife and dog, Billy Bones, and near his two children. His memoir of the sixties, Nothing Left to Lose: or How Not to Start a Commune, will debut in April 2024. He has two novels and one short story collection under his belt. Richards loves the past because it does not go anywhere unlike the present which is as slippery as a greased pig. He is also an ancestor worshipper.

Richards’ fiction, essays, and cowboy poetry have appeared in over 30 publications and four anthologies. He was the fiction editor and board member of the washington review, a college teacher for many years principally at George Washington University and has also taught at the high school and elementary level. He has worked as a dishwasher, door-to-door salesmen, farm worker, wilderness counselor, newspaper carrier, radio reporter, and busboy. He has hitchhiked across the country five times, but that was a while back. He is a graduate of the Hollins Writing Program.