The author or eighteen books of prose and verse from Wesleyan University Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Louisiana State University Press, Three Rooms Press, and Oleander Press, Richard Katrovas taught for twenty years at the University of New Orleans, since 2004 at Western Michigan University. His essays, stories and poems have appeared in scores of literary journals and in dozens of anthologies. Katrovas is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright fellowship and most recently the 2018 Gold Medal for the Novel from the Faulkner Society. With Robert Eversz and Trevor Top, Katrovas founded the Prague Summer Program in the early ‘90s. Katrovas’s most recent books are The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder (poetry, Carnegie Mellon, 2022) and Poets and the Fools Who Love Them (essays, LSU, 2022). His Alien Love: An Ex-Poet’s Meditations on Love, Lust, and Romance is forthcoming. Richard Katrovas is the proud father of three incredible Czech-American daughters, Ema Katrovas, Anna Katrovas, and Ella Katrovasová.