Richard is an award-winning playwright, poet, artist, journalist, filmmaker and educator. His play "Happily Ever After" was given an honorable mention in the Writer's Digest script competition. He was a finalist in the grant competition in playwrighting for the Massachusetts Artists Foundation (1976) and recipient of an ARTA (American Regional Theatre Award) best new play award in 1986 for hi splay "Swann Song." His plays have received staged readings and performances at Culture Park and other venues. He has acted in over 30 plays and acts professionally on stage and in film and television....

Geography is a collection of new poems by award winning actor, poet, playwright, artist, filmmaker and teacher, Richard Pacheco. He has also written fiction, nonfiction, journalism and criticism for various magazines and newspapers. He was the arts writer and critic for the New Bedford Standard-Times for 23 years. He still writes theater criticism for Theater Mirror and also publishes a blog with theater criticism at http: //livetheatemass-ri.blogspot.com He was also a single parent of three children, Joel, Jennifer and Jonathan