Rick Wilber

About Me

Rick Wilber’s mystery novel, Rum Point is newly out from McFarland Books. He is also the author of The Cold Road (Forge, 2003), To Leuchars (Wildside, 2000), Where Garagiola Waits (University of Tampa Press, 1999) and a memoir on baseball and the caregiver role, My Father’s Game (McFarland, 2008). Some fifty of his science-fiction and fantasy short stories and a number of poems have appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, GulfStream, and elsewhere. A thirty-two veteran of college teaching, he also writes college textbooks on writing and the media, and he is a journalism professor at the University of South Florida where he heads the magazine major. He is administrator and co-founder with Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.