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Richard Leis

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in The Dalles, OR, The United States

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Horror, Poetry, Science Fiction

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Richard Leis is a writer of literary, speculative, and horror short stories and poems. His stories have appeared in The Molotov Cocktail and anthologies published by Crone Girls Press and House of Zolo. His poems have been published in various journals, including Impossible Archetype, The Laurel Review, Manzano Mountain Review, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, and the Adult Children anthology from Wising Up Press. He has been recognized for his work with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and as a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards in 2018 and 2021.

With the HiRISE team at the University of Arizona, Richard makes stunning images of the Martian surface taken by the HiRISE camera freely available to the public an ...more

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Download Issue More Poems Richard Leis early in the 2000s, smiling in a candid photograph taken by a friend while standing next to a brick wall in a bar. He's dressed in a sweater and suede jacket.

Richard Leis early in the 2000s, smiling in a candid photograph taken by a friend while standing next to a brick wall in a bar. He's dressed in a sweater and suede jacket.

Impossible Archetype
Issue 15
30 March 2024

New and old photographs suggest a reunion between old friends.

After moving from Arizona back to Oregon where I grew up, there was a long adjustment period before I resumed a somewhat regular schedule of writing. I’ve been revising old poems to get back into the h

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	Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 3 by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Unger, C. Patrick Neagle (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coppice & Brake by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabrielle Bleu, R.K. Duncan 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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