A working professional writer since 1978, I've been a journalist in newspapers, radio and television, and in 1994, broke into the world of publishing for the first time.

Since then I have published three novels and a memoir with Doubleday Canada Ltd. This year, my new novel, Ragged Company, arrives in August, followed by a collected memoir, One Native Life, in September.

I have written politics, general news, op-ed, documentary, music, film and book reviews as well as feature articles on virtually everything.

These days, at 52, I live in the Interior of British Columbia with my beautiful partner, Debra, and our dog Molly. The land is healing and beautiful and life is a constant assortment of challenges and joys.

See my website at www.richardwagamese.com for more info and excerpts from the books.

My passion is ...

Baseball

I know too much about ...

Music

My childhood ambition ...

Storyteller

My favorite memory ...

Boston's first World Series win in 2004

Why I write ...

I have no choice

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

all kinds of fiction and all kinds of music

My first job ...

ferris wheel operator

My best moment ...

still to come

My inspiration ...

the land

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Making It Home -

Every year the world returns to proper balance sometime in mid February. The day that pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training is the day that time begins again. The five months of darkness that is winter when there is no baseball are hollow without the resonance of a wooden bat swatting a horsehide covered ball.
There is no green for me in that time and there is no hard blue bowl of sky where fly balls arc to land with a plop in them outstretched gloves of racing outfielders. It sounds silly perhaps coming from a grown man but there's a severe absence of fun w...

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