Richard Jarrette is author of Beso the Donkey (MSU Press, 2010) Gold Medal Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2011, A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances (Green Writers Press, 2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (Green Writers Press, 2017), The Pond (Green Writers Press, 2019), Strange Antlers (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions, 2022), and Wheresoever (Spring, 2022). Jarrette’s books received advance praise from W.S. Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, Joseph Stroud, Sam Hamill, Yun Wang, Marsha de la O, and Patrick Donnelly. His youth was divided between Los Angeles and the Southern Appalachian Highlands of Western North Carolina where he is yet considered a regional writer as well as Central and Southern California. Mostly retired as a psychotherapist after forty-five years, he lived reclusively for many years in Central California and returned to Los Angeles.