Richard Chiappone

Richard Chiappone worked in the trades for forty years before he damaged his neck vertebrae, forcing him to retire. He says, “Now my wife works all day, and I stay home and write, cook elaborate meals, bake bread, and wish I could put my hard hat back on and work construction again.” He is the author of the story collections Water of an Undetermined Depth (Stackpole Books) and Opening Day, which will be published in 2010 by Barclay Creek Press. He lives near Homer, Alaska, and teaches at Kenai Peninsula College and in the University of Alaska’s creative-writing MFA program.