Richard Paul Haight received a Ph.D. in English literature from The Ohio State University. He has taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and briefly at the University of Colorodo in Boulder. He was the humanities advisor to large-scale grand projects sponsored by The Dallas Theater Center and the National Farmers Union and was assistant director of The Colorado Humanities Program, a state=based re-granting agency of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Haight has published poetry, social commentary essays, and book and film reviews. At the time of publication he lives and writes in Denver.