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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 (pronounced LEES) (he/him) has written poems and stories that have appeared in The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Molotov Cocktail, Nightmare, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Harpy Hybrid Review, Impossible Archetype, The Laurel Review, Manzano Mountain Review, the Timberline Review, and in anthologies including the Journal of Speculative Literature, Volume 1, from House of Zolo, Coppice & Brake and Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 3 from Crone Girls Press, and Adult Children from Wising Up Press. His poem “After ‘Wave, North Shore of Oahu’ Photograph” was runner-up for The Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry in the Willamette Writers & the Timberline Review 2024 Kay Snow RICHARD LEIS (pronounced LEES) (he/him) has written poems and stories that have appeared in The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Molotov Cocktail, Nightmare, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Harpy Hybrid Review, Impossible Archetype, The Laurel Review, Manzano Mountain Review, the Timberline Review, and in anthologies including the Journal of Speculative Literature, Volume 1, from House of Zolo, Coppice & Brake and Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 3 from Crone Girls Press, and Adult Children from Wising Up Press. His poem “After ‘Wave, North Shore of Oahu’ Photograph” was runner-up for The Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry in the Willamette Writers & the Timberline Review 2024 Kay Snow Awards. 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.

He works at the University of Arizona with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) team, which has had a camera in orbit around Mars since 2006. Richard helps makes stunning images of the Martian surface taken by the HiRISE camera freely available to the public and science community. The spirit of exploration carries over into his writing.

Richard is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the HWA’s Oregon Chapter, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), and Willamette Writers. He holds degrees in Creative Writing and English from the University of Arizona and honed his craft in writing workshops and classes offered by the University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Writers Studio, the Tucson Festival of Books Masters Workshop, and Moanaria’s Fright Club. From 2019 to 2022, Richard taught as a writing instructor at The Writers Studio (at their Tucson, Arizona branch and online), and served as a board member for the Tucson Poetry Festival from 2019 to 2022. ...more

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Presenting “The Jump (Scare) to Horror” for Poets

Aug 22 2026

The Jump (Scare) to Horror: Speculative and Horror Poetry for Literary Poets

Garden Home Community Library • Portland, Oregon

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

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Elgin Award winner and Rhysling Award finalist Katherine Quevedo and I are teaching a free, in-person workshop on speculative and horror poetry at Garden Home Community Lib

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Average rating: 4.57 · 35 ratings · 11 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 3 by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Unger, C. Patrick Neagle (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 24 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 — 3 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
	The Deadlands, Issue 35, Summer 2024 by E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Panatier (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Corey Farrenkopf (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024 — 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

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A Gorgeous Excitement

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Richard Leis and 1 other person liked Mary Soon Lee's review of Wuthering Heights: "A re-read. I last read this over thirty years ago. I remembered not liking it very much, and it was far better than I recalled, yet not, to me, enjoyable. I understand Wuthering Heights's status as a classic. The central pair round whom the plot tur" Read more of this review »
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Richard Leis and 5 other people liked E's review of Crave: "Horrible synopsis of this book: alien thing happens. Two people match each others freak. The end. "
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This is too extreme for me and left me nauseous, but I'm glad I challenged myself, and for a horror book, Crave truly is horrifying. I lie awake thinking about the ramifications of behavior-modifying space mold arriving on Earth and fear the universe ...more
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