Richard Holeman was born in New Jersey in 1966 and lives in southern California. In his youth, he spent years wandering the highways between Jersey and California, hitchhiking the interstates and back roads of America, trying to get lost, hoping to be found. His stories and poetry are inspired by his childhood and the neighborhood gang of kids he grew up with and by the years he spent living on the road.

He has written all of his life, but took a late leap of faith as a writer, independently publishing his first book, First Boy on the Moon, in 2018 at the age of 52. In his life, he's been a jack-of-all-trades, working as a chef, a forklift driver, a vocational trainer, a travelling carny, a lumberyard laborer and...well, you get the picture. In his heart, he has always been a writer.

He is currently working on his fifth book and expects to run out of time before he runs out of stories.