Richard is the author of seven books, including four poetry collections: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award; Emblem; and Noon until Night, winner of the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His prose works include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, as well as the story collection Interference and Other Stories. His work has appeared in numerous journals including AGNI, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, The Literary Review, Poetry, Witness, and elsewhere. He is Senior Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and Nonfiction Editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
