Richard Gilbert
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | teacher and writer |
| Location | Riner, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | I am author of SHEPHERD: A MEMOIR about dreams, loss, fatherhood, and operating a sheep farm for ten years in Appalachian Ohio. It was a 2015 Finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction. My essays have appeared in Brevity, Chautauqua, Fourth Genre, Orion, River Teeth, and Utne Reader. My blog Draft No. 4 is for readers, writers, and students of writing, with a special focus on creative nonfiction. |
| Interests | Writing, essays, narrative nonfiction, memoir, literary journalism, The New Yorker, fiction, spirituality, Buddhism, Jack Russell terriers, Labrador retrivers, Border collies, chickens, sheep and cattle, grass farming, sustainable agriculture. |
| Favorite movies | Synecdoche New York, The Big Lebowski, The Darjeeling Ltd., Wonder Boys, Fried Green Tomatoes, Amelie, Blue Velvet, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Moonrise Kingdom |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Paul Thorn, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, The Avett Brothers, |
| Favorite books | A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, For the Time Being, Anna Karenina, The Great Gatsby, Moby-Dick, Letters to a Young Poet, A New Earth, Name All the Animals, Lit, Freedom, Ordinary People, Walden |