Richard Adams Carey grew up in Connecticut. He is the author of four books of literary narrative nonfiction, most recently In the Evil Day, which has been optioned for film by London-based Island Pictures. Against the Tide won the New Hampshire Literary Prize for Nonfiction, and Raven’s Children was a New York Public Library Book to Remember. His essays, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Yankee Magazine, Harvard Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Massachusetts Review, Hunger Mountain, Assignment, and the Beloit Fiction Journal.