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AboutHere's a short biographical blurb, in case that's useful. (See below for a longer version.)
Rick Claypool (he/him) is the author of TENTACLE HEAD (Bear Creek Press, 2022), THE MOLD FARMER (Six Gallery Press, 2020), LEECH GIRL LIVES (Spaceboy Books, 2017), and short stories that appear here and there online and elsewhere. You can hear him rant about one thing or another in Spec Fic Partisan, his audio column for the SFF podcast If This Goes On (Don't Panic). He grew up in the industrial outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa., and currently resides in Rhode Island. |
And here's a slightly longer version, on the off chance you want to know slightly more.
Rick Claypool (he/him) is the author of TENTACLE HEAD (Bear Creek Press, 2022), THE MOLD FARMER (Six Gallery Press, 2020), LEECH GIRL LIVES (Spaceboy Books, 2017), and short stories that appear here and there online, including HAD, Expat Press, and Heavy Feather Review. You can hear him rant about one thing or another in Spec Fic Partisan, his audio column for the SFF podcast If This Goes On (Don't Panic).
Rick grew up in the industrial outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Rhode Island. Jobs Rick has held over the years include: alt-newsweekly reporter, fast food cashier, adjunct instructor, first-person history interpreter, in-home caregiver for intellectually disabled people, bank data entry guy, and grassroots organizer. Today he works as a researcher for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive nonprofit dedicated to fighting corporate power. Major media outlets that have covered Rick's reports include the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR.
Rick has a master’s degree in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he wrote his thesis on stories people tell about their cars breaking down, and an English degree from Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania. A member of the Rhode Island Mycological Society, he spends as much of his spare time as he can wandering through the woods searching for fungi and slime molds.
Rick Claypool (he/him) is the author of TENTACLE HEAD (Bear Creek Press, 2022), THE MOLD FARMER (Six Gallery Press, 2020), LEECH GIRL LIVES (Spaceboy Books, 2017), and short stories that appear here and there online, including HAD, Expat Press, and Heavy Feather Review. You can hear him rant about one thing or another in Spec Fic Partisan, his audio column for the SFF podcast If This Goes On (Don't Panic).
Rick grew up in the industrial outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Rhode Island. Jobs Rick has held over the years include: alt-newsweekly reporter, fast food cashier, adjunct instructor, first-person history interpreter, in-home caregiver for intellectually disabled people, bank data entry guy, and grassroots organizer. Today he works as a researcher for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive nonprofit dedicated to fighting corporate power. Major media outlets that have covered Rick's reports include the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR.
Rick has a master’s degree in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he wrote his thesis on stories people tell about their cars breaking down, and an English degree from Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania. A member of the Rhode Island Mycological Society, he spends as much of his spare time as he can wandering through the woods searching for fungi and slime molds.
