Nicholas Ripatrazone’s work has appeared in Eclectica, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, National Catholic Reporter, Southern Gothic, and elsewhere. His fiction will be anthologized later this year in The Long Meanwhile: Stories of Arrival and Departure. He and his wife enjoyed a long summer of rest, fishing, and basketball, but now are both back to teaching. He is pursuing an MFA from the University of Texas, El Paso.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Nicholas responded:

“A love of words, of syllables and phonemes and phrases. Writing is such a youthful, immediate activity, and yet the practice is so eternal. One word a day is sometimes enough to pore over, pare down, until the letters become pure sound. Writing is the act of possessing language.”

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