Richard Stevenson lives in Lethbridge, Southern Alberta (Canada). He works at Lethbridge Community College, where he teaches Canadian and Children's Literature, Creative Writing, and Business Communication.

As for prior publications, Thistledown Press in Saskatoon, SK just published his twelfth collection, "Live Evil: A Homage To Miles Davis". Other recent publications include a New & Selected volume, "A Murder of Crows" ( Black Moss Press, 1998 ) and a collection of light verse, "Nothing Definite Yeti" ( Ekstasis Editions, 1999 ) as well as various haiku, senryu, and tanka in American Tanka, American Haiku, Stirring, Poetry In The Light, 3rd Muse, etc.

When he's not teaching or writing poetry, he runs a reading series, write reviews and does a little editing, or, occasionally, performs with two jazz/poetry troupes, Naked Ear (doing a Miles homage set) and Sasquatch (doing YA verse). He has recently recorded a first CD with Naked Ear, a spin-off project from the Miles book and various web installations / collaborations of jazz poetry and computer art with local artist Marlene Menard.