Richard Snodgrass is an author and photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Growing up in the 50s surrounded by mills and farmlands greatly influenced Snodgrass' artistic journey. After a twenty year stint on the West Coast, Snodgrass returned to Western PA to pursue a career in writing and photography. Snodgrass often photographs places devoid of people in order to capture something of the spirit of those who normally inhabit those spaces – to reveal the nature of the people who live there by showing what he's referred to elsewhere as stage settings after the players had exited. With the turn of the century, Snodgrass taught himself how to use an inkjet printer and he began reprinting old negatives of his from the 70s. Reborn were his series of steel mills, Western Pennsylvanian towns, farm country, and kitchen things. Richard Snodgrass’s short stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, South Dakota Review, California Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is also a master photographer who has been artist-in-residence at LightWorks (University of Syracuse) and at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1989, Viking published Snodgrass’s novel There’s Something in the Back Yard to critical acclaim: “Observe this mysterious book and be changed,” wrote Jack Stephens in the Washington Post Book World. Snodgrass is also the author of An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial, published in September of 2011 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Kitchen Things: An Album of Vintage Utensils and Farm Kitchen Recipes, published in 2013 by Skyhorse and named one of the year’s “best books to get you thinking about food” by the Associated Press. Richard Snodgrass lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Marty and two indomitable female tuxedo cats, raised from feral kittens, named Frankie and Becca. Read an interview between Mark Rengers and Richard Snodgrass here.