Richard Bush was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Raised an Air Force brat, he has lived in places like Okinawa and San Francisco before returning to Las Vegas when his father left the Air Force, then moved sixty miles north to Overton Nevada. He has been writing science fiction since a young age but published nothing until the mid-nineties when he wrote a few articles for computer magazines. When he graduated from college he took a temporary job at a water district, but the dirty rats kept promoting him, so he stayed for fifteen years! He spent the last twenty-one years teaching high school math until retiring. Now he writes part time and putters around the house full time. He lives in San Tan Valley Arizona with his wife and a dog that's too intelligent for his own good!