Richard Arbib was born in New York City, earned a master’s degree in English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, taught English in Vietnam, and composition and literature to college students in Nevada. He has had short fiction published in Mensa Bulletin and articles published in Integra-The Journal of Intertel. In 2014, his first novel, The Vampire Girl Next Door, was a finalist in the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards contest and named a Notable Book Page-Turner in the Shelf Unbound Writing Competition.