Kemick convincingly wrests the sublime from the trivial. He manages, astonishingly, a tone both earnest and ironic, with details and insights that are lively, unexpected, funny, and poignant.
–National Magazine Awards Jury
Richard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet, journalist, and fiction writer. He is the author of the essay collection, Decadence.
Richard is also the author of Hello, Horse, I Am Herod (available on audiobook), the poetry collection Caribou Run, and the stage play Amor De Cosmos: A Delusional Musical. His limited series podcast, Natural Life, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan.
He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.