Richard Wolkomir has worked as a laundry sheet folder, zoo bear-cub keeper, roofer, groundskeeper, newspaper reporter, and writer of award-winning articles and essays for such magazines as Reader’s Digest, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. Now he’s writing novels--fantasies, mysteries, and thrillers--with speculative stories appearing in a variety of literary journals. Visit him at www.richardjoycewolkomir.net.