Richard Snodgrass is the author of the novel, There’s Something in the Back Yard, published by Viking Press 1989, to critical acclaim: “Observe this mysterious book and be changed,” wrote Jack Stephens in the Washington Post Book World. After more than 35 years in development, his series, The Books of Furnass, about a fictitious Western Pennsylvania mill town, was released beginning in 2018. Richard Snodgrass is also the author of two books of photographs and text: 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, published in 2013 by Skyhorse, named one of the year’s “best books to get you thinking about food” by the Associated Press. In 2022, Carnegie Mellon University Press published a memoir entitled, The House with Round Windows.

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.

Richard Snodgrass lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Marty and two indomitable female tuxedo cats, raised from feral kittens, named Frankie and Becca.