Background
Richard Melo was born in San Francisco, California and attended San Francisco State University.
Richard Melo was born in San Francisco, California and attended San Francisco State University.
San Francisco State University.
He is the author of the novels Happy Talk and Jokerman 8. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. As a book critic since 2004, Melo has reviewed books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Robbins, among others
His fiction has appeared in Willamette Week and Gobshite Quarterly.
He began his career as a playwright with two productions appearing on the Mountain. Hood Community College stage in the early 1990s.
He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
Melo is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has written about Tom Wolfe for the NBCC blog.