RICHARD DOKEY was born in the Great Central Valley of the Golden State, received his degree at Berkeley and now lives in the country outside of Stockton, California, where he writes full-time and teaches several in philosophy at San Joaquin College classes.
An avid traveler and fly fisherman, he has wandered the world searching for Salmo trutta, which, he believes, is as elusive a creature as himself. He takes particular joy in catching and releasing trout on flies he has tied himself, believing that letting a trout go after having captured it is much like freeing a story from his mind once he has written it. He has hunted trout in places far removed as Alaska, New Zealand, Chile and Montana, where he has spent part of each summer for the past twenty years.
Dokey's stories have appeared in dozens of leading literary reviews around the country, have won prizes and are frequently reprinted in nationally distributed anthologies and textbooks. Collections of his stories have been enthusiastically reviewed in newspapers, periodicals and professional journals from coast to coast.