Richard Fazio, under another name, is a writer whose literary reviews, fiction, and poetry have been published by Amazing Stories, Milady Publishing, Wavelengths Online, Riverside Quarterly, La Stampa, The San Francisco Chronicle, Poetry Flash, The Sacramento Book Review, Oblivion Magazine, theRumpus.net, Alien Skin Magazine, The Haight Ashbury Free Press, Library of Science Fiction & Fantasy Press and GuyWriters Magazine. He has served as a judge for the Spectrum Awards (for GLBT genre literature) and is now on the Fiction Committee for selection of the Northern California Book Award. His past academic pursuits include the study of mythology and folklore. Richard, a native New Yorker, currently resides and works in San Francisco.