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Mark Richard
Photo credit: Robert
Yager |
Of Cajun-Creole-French descent,
Mark Richard grew up in Texas and Virginia. At age 13,
he became the youngest radio announcer in the United States
at WYSR-AM in Franklin, Virginia.
Mark is the author of three books of fiction: Charity,
Fishboy, and The Ice at the Bottom of the World,
which won the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award.
His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire,
The Paris Review, Harper's, The Quarterly, Grand Street,
Shenandoah, Antaeus, and numerous anthologies.
The many awards Mark has received for his writing
include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship,
a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, and the Mary Francis
Hobson Medal for Arts & Letters, among others. He has
taught creative writing at Arizona State University,
the University of Mississippi, the University of the
South, and the Writer's Voice in New York City.
Currently, Mark is working on his next novel and also writing for television. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons, Roman and Deacon.
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