Author Biography and Bibliography

Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944. In his third year as a freshman, he took a writing course with Mark Eisenstein at Hofstra College. For the last thirty-three years he has lived in New York City and done the usual jumble of things. He began writing speculative fiction in the early 1980s. In 1992 he started publishing stories narrated by the character Kevin Grierson. These eventually became the novel Minions of the Moon. One story, "Streetcar Dreams," won a World Fantasy Award. The novel itself won the Lambda Literary Award for best Gay/Lesbian SF/F novel.





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