Chuck Richardson

Chuck Richardson has worked as a newspaper political reporter/columnist, freelance journalist, Greenpeace activist, cab driver, insurance salesman, substitute teacher, landscaper, nature preserve tour guide, bar bouncer, submarine SONAR technician, etc. Richardson's fiction has appeared in the Fall issue of BlazeVOX 2K7: An Online Journal of Voice, Mayday Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Atticus Review, Blood Lotus Journal, eccolinguistics and elsewhere. His play, TV Land, was produced by the Buffalo Ensemble Theatre in 1997. From 2003 to 2005, Richardson maintained a broad web presence in the anti-Bush blogosphere, posting more than 100 screeds on more than 50 sites. One of them, "Looking for a Deathbed Conversion," was published in Howling Dog Press's The Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism [2007], a book which received rave reviews from Harry Belafonte, Howard Zinn, and others. His literary criticism has appeared in Reconfigurations, Countercurrents and Mauro Nervi's The Kafka Project [EU]. BlazeVOX[books] has published two of his novels, Smoke [2009], So It Seams [2010] and Dreamlands: 3 Fictions [2011]. You can follow his work at his blog: https://chuckrichardson.blogspot.com. He lives in Western New York.