Richard Stevenson was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1952 and has lived in Western Canada and Nigeria. A college English professor by profession, he has taught English, Canadian and African Literature, Creative writing and other courses in high schools and colleges. A former Editor-in-Chief of Prism International, his own reviews and poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies and journals in Canada, U.S. and overseas. He lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.