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About the Author
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"The goal of a literary artist is to create,
for a reader, a place that allows them to
defy their own reality and hopefully
substitute
it
with my fiction."
-A.
Phoenix Richard |
Greetings and welcome to my "All about
me" page. Yes, it's vain, but I caught you
looking. My mini-biography is posted below. However, In my new Blogs, "From
the Ashes," and "Just Politicking" you will find a
host of other information about me, things I love, and despise as well as a
listing on my writing goals and political ideas.
-Astrya
Personal Links:
MySpace
Facebook
"From the Ashes" Blog
"Just
Politicking" Blog
A. Phoenix Richard
Yahoo Group
Teaching Portfolio
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Biography
Astrya Richard was raised in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Southern University
&
A&M College and is
a Political Consultant & Technical Writer
(soon to be teacher) in Houston, Texas where she
resides with her husband Hill, and five-year-old son Rhys. Ms. Richard
began creative writing
when she was in grade school. By the time she was in middle school she was
penning plays about her circle of friends. In college, she wrote her first
screenplay and her first novel before uniting writing with her other passion, politics
and writing for the campus political paper. She was recognized for her sharp
analysis of the political landscape and offered a prestigious White House
Fellowship while still an undergraduate. Astrya also wrote a couple of national
championship winning debate cases and penned two plays, that were later staged.
To date, she has written nine plays, seven short stories, several skeleton
novels and a host of poems. Family Secrets was her first published work
but she is currently working on four literary projects. Of those, two are
fiction novels and two or political non-fiction books. Ms. Richard's future
fiction writing will be published under the pen name, A. Phoenix Richard while
her non-fiction work will remain listed under Astrya Richard. The follow-up to
"Family Secrets", "Things Fall Apart" will be the
first new work released in the Fall of 2007.
Awards
Outstanding Debut Novelist
Award
Awarded in 2003 by the Sisters of Hotlanta Book Club.
Online Interview
Sister Circle Book Club Online
Interview
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