Randy has been a writer/editor at newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years, while contributing creative nonfiction and personal essays to literary magazines and pursuing independent projects. He teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at Emory University in Atlanta.
Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., hailed the "fierce truth and humor" in Randy's writing. Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay, Bachelorhood, and many others, called it "powerful and direct." Hollis Gillespie, author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch and others, called Randy "one of my favorite writers of all time, and I do mean throughout the history of the universe. Utterly brilliant." Randy is represented by The Wendy Weil Agency in New York.
Along with general-interest, investigative and feature writing, Randy's day-job background includes technical writing for a trade magazine of the metal-fabricating industry; ad copywriting for print and radio; television broadcasting as host of a local public-affairs program; and radio broadcasting (gathering, writing and announcing news) for about five years at AM/FM stations in the Midwest.
For the past decade or so, his professional work has focused on the biotech/pharmaceutical industry, as he continues with literary and storytelling pursuits. Email him at the link below to see a resume that provides particulars; click around on this site for more about the other stuff.
