RICHARD CARR grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota, and now lives in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in Poetry East, Exquisite Corpse, New Letters, Painted Bride Quarterly and many other journals. His chapbooks include Our Blue Earth (runner up in the Texas Review Press Robert Phillips Chapbook Competition), Butterfly and Nothingness (a poetry hypertext published by Mudlark) and Letters from North Prospect (winner of the Frank Cat Press Poetry Chapbook Award).

His full-length poetry collections are Fitzpatrick (Broadstone Books), Grave Reading (Unsolicited Press), Lucifer (Logan House Press), Dead Wendy (FutureCycle Press), Imperfect Prayers (Steel Toe Books), One Sleeve (Evening Street Press), Ace (Word Works Books), Honey (Gival Press), Street Portraits (Backwaters Press), and Mister Martini (University of North Texas Press).

His honors include the Holland Prize for Lucifer, the FutureCycle Poetry Prize for Dead Wendy, the Washington Prize for Ace, the Gival Press Poetry Award for Honey, and the Vassar Miller Prize for Mister Martini.