Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber's most recent book is the memoir, My Fathers Game: Life, Death, Baseball from McFarland Books, which best-selling author Peter Straub called a stunning book, and one that abounds with faith, heartbreak, love, insight, and honor.

His thriller novel, The Cold Road, came out to good reviews in 2003, and his short-story collection, Where Garagiola Waits, was short-listed in 1999 for the Dave Moore Award for most important baseball book of the year.

Rick is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and editor whose work has appeared in magazines like Asimovs Science Fiction magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, Analog, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Elysian Fields Quarterly, The Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Star*Date magazine, Catholic Digest and many more newspapers, magazines and anthologies.

He was editor for a dozen years of Fiction Quarterly, the short-story supplement of The Tampa Tribune, and later was fiction editor at GalaxyOnline.com. He has had more than fifty short stories and a similar number of poems in print as well as several hundred feature stories, reviews and essays.

He is a journalism professor at the University of South Florida and also writes college textbooks on writing, editing and mass-media studies.