Richard Schwindt is a social worker in Kingston, Ontario. He is author of The Death in Sioux Lookout Trilogy, Dreams and Sioux Nights, The Love Duology, Social Work for Fun and Profit, Tony Price: Confidential, Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing, and six other books in the Emotional Recovery series. Richard has twice been shortlisted for the International Three Day Novel Contest and won the Outstanding Book Award (self-help) for 2016 from the Independent Author Network for Emotional Recovery from Congenital Heart Disease. He served ten years with OAPSW Newsmagazine, two years on the Community Editorial Board of the Kingston Whig-Standard and in 2007 was second runner up in Comedian Idol of Kingston. He has been married thirty-six years, has two adult children and two grandchildren.