Richard Pastor, formerly a stage actor, turned his focus to writing in 2007. He graduated from College of Alameda with an AA in English in 2012. He began studying short form fiction at Berkeley City College in 2017, and received a Creative Writing certificate in 2019. Long form work includes Not Dead Yet, an unpublished memoir completed in 2013, and a novel in progress, A Verdant Chaos. He is the author of several short stories, many of them with a fantasy or supernatural theme, intended for a collection he calls Bedroom Ghost and Other Improbable Tales. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with many cats.