Richard lives in Wilmington, NC, a recent move after twenty-four years in the Phoenix Valley. He received a B.S. degree in Biology from Sonoma State University (California) and a Ph.D. in Biology/Neurobiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was Professor of Biology at Arizona State University until 2004 when he took the position of Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A Fulbright Scholar at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland; 1994), and a recent Guggenheim Fellow (2002/03), he has published over sixty articles in scientific journals and edited books. Phoenix is his debut novel.

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