Richard Wiley was raised in Tacoma, Washington, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. His first novel, Soldiers in Hiding, was awarded the 1987 PEN/Faulkner award for Best American Fiction. Subsequent novels include Fool’s Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Ahmed’s Revenge, Commodore Perry’s Minstrel Show, and Indigo. A founder of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Nevada, Wiley lives in Las Vegas.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Strange Detective, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010