Richard Schwindt is a social worker in Kingston, Ontario where he works for an EAP company, and has a practice in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy with special focus on recovery for targets of workplace mobbing. He is a graduate of Glendon College and the Carleton University School of Social Work, member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the Ontario Association of Social Workers and the Canadian Society for Clinical Hypnosis (Ontario Division). Richard has worked in Toronto, Sioux Lookout and Kingston, Ontario in a variety of clinical setting for children and adults. He is author of The Death in Sioux Lookout trilogy, Dreams and Sioux Nights, and has twice been shortlisted for the International Three Day Novel Contest. He served two years on the Community Editorial Board of the Kingston Whig-Standard and in 2007 he was second runner up in Comedian Idol of Kingston. He can be quite funny (ha ha) but only, his daughter warns him, when he is not trying. He has been married thirty-three years, has two adult children and two grandchildren. His website is www.richardschwindt.ca