Richard Satterlie lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, a recent move after twenty-four years in the Phoenix Valley. He received a B.S. degree in Biology from Sonoma State University (California) and a Ph.D. in Biology/Neurobiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was Professor of Biology at Arizona State University until 2004 when he took the position of Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A Fulbright Scholar at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland; 1994), and a recent Guggenheim Fellow (2002/03), he has published over sixty articles in scientific journals and edited books.

Richard’s debut novel, Phoenix, is published by Whiskey Creek Press (Historical, American West), and a short story, The Stick, appears in Fear: An Anthology Of Horror And Suspense, also from Whiskey Creek Press. He is writing the Marine Science volume for a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Science and Technology to be published by Facts-on-File in early 2008.