Brad Richard’s books include Habitations, Motion Studies, Butcher’s Sugar, and Parasite Kingdom. His fifth book, Turned Earth, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2025. His most recent chapbook 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 (whose creative writing program he founded and directed), 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. More at bradrichard.org.