Dick Carmel's fiction has appeared in Origins Journal, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Akashic Books' Mondays Are Murder, Chicago Literati, Front Porch Review, bird's thumb and other publications. His first novel, Though We Have No Merits, was published in 2020. Carmel has also published nonfiction in Travel Today and the Law Review at Northwestern University, where he earned BA and JD degrees. His clerkship at the Illinois Appellate Court, private practice of law and work as a business consultant provide a diverse background that informs his writing.