About

Richard Chiappone is the author of four collections of short fiction and essays and the novel The Hunger of Crows. His writing has appeared in Playboy, The Sun, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Sporting Classics, Catamaran Literary Review, Crescent Review, Fiction Southeast, Missouri Review, South Dakota Review,andZYZZYVA, among other places.  He has taught for the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1995, and served as an associate editor at Alaska Quarterly Review for more than a dozen years. His work has been featured on the BBC Radio 3 literary show “The Verb” and his story “Raccoon” was made into a short film and featured at international film festivals. He is a two-time winner of the Robert Traver Award. In 2021, Chiappone won an Alaska State Council on the Arts Literary Award and grant.

A forty year Alaskan, he lives with his wife in Homer, where he was an organizer of the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference for the eighteen years.