BRAD RICHARD's books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, and Parasite Kingdom. His fifth book, Turned Earth, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2025 His most recent chapbooks is In Place, winner of the 2021 Robin Becker Series Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. He has taught creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, The Willow School (where he founded and director the creative writing programs), Louisiana State University, and Tulane University, and for New Orleans Writers Workshop. Series editor of the Hilary Tham Capital Collection from The Word Works, he lives, writes, and gardens in New Orleans. Visit bradrichard.org to learn more.