Jeff Richards second novel Lady Killer is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publishing, his first, Open Country: A Civil War Novel in Stories, was published by Paycock Press in 2015. His fiction, essays, and cowboy poetry have appeared in over 27 publications including Prick of the Spindle, Pinch, New South, and Southern Humanities Review and five anthologies including “Tales Out of School” (Beacon Press), “Letters to J.D. Salinger” (University of Wisconsin Press), and “Higher Education” (Pearson), a college composition reader. “The March Against Death” is an excerpt from his memoir in progress about the sixties titled Nothing Left to Lose. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with his wife and two dogs.