Richard Bowes has lived for most of his life in Manhattan. He has published five novels the most recent of which is From the Files of the Time Rangers (Golden Gryphon 2005). His Minions of the Moon (Tor 1999) won the Lambda Award. "Streetcar Dreams," one of the stories from which that novel was built, won the World Fantasy Award.

His short fiction has appeared in F&SF, SciFiction, Postscripts, Nebula Awards Showcase, Years Best Fantasy and Horror and elsewhere. His most recent collection Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies will appear from PS Publications in England in 2006.

Recent and upcoming stories include "Jacket Jackson" (with Mark Rich) in Electric Velocipede #10, "City of Chimeras" in Helix, Summer of 2006, and for the anthologies, "A Tale For The Short Days" in The Coyote Road, "Dust Devils on a Quiet Street" in Salon Fantastique and "The Wand's Boy" in So Fey.

In recent months his post 9/11 story on Scifiction, "There's a Hole in the City" was chosen for inclusion in Horror, the Best of the Year 2006 and in Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005. It has also won the non-genre Million Writers Award and been nominated for the Nebula and International Horror Guild Awards. It and several other of his recent stories will be part of his story cycle Dust Devils on a Quiet Street.