Background
Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944.
Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944.
He attended school both in Boston and on Long Island, New New York
In his third year, he took writing courses with Mark Eisenstein at Hofstra University. After graduation, Bowes moved to Manhattan where he has lived since 1965, doing the usual jumble of things that writers do in order to earn a living. He launched his Speculative Fiction writing career in the early 1980s and published novels Warchild, Feral Cell and Goblin Market.
In 1992, Bowes began writing a series of semi-autobiographical stories narrated by Kevin Grierson.
These stories were published primarily in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later became the novel Minions of the Moon. A short fiction collection, Transfigured Night and Other Stories, was published by Time Warner in 2001.
lieutenant included the original novella My Life in Speculative Fiction. These stories plus recent material appeared in Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies from England"s Personal Publishing in 2006.
In recent years, Bowes has written a series of stories about Time Rangers and the Gods, which have formed the mosaic novel From the Files of the Time Rangers, published September 2005 by Golden Gryphon Press.
Other Time Rangers stories have appeared in Sciences Fiction and Black Gate. In 2013 Bowes published the novel/story cycle Dust Devils on a Quiet Street, about a group of writers in New York City before, during, and after 9/11. Dust Devil appeared on the World Fantasy and Lambda Award short lists.
The story was published in the February 2008 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
"I Needs Must Participant, the Policeman Said" was nominated in the Best Novella category for the 2010 World Fantasy Awards. The story ran in the December 2009 edition of F&San Francisco.