Richard Moyer received his M.A. in poetry in 2000. The title of his thesis was The Cancer Center and Other Poems. Since graduating, he has published numerous poems in magazines such as Mad Poets Review, Endicott Review, The Twelfth Street Review, Maelstrom, The Pink Cadillac, Small Pond Magazine, Hazmat Review, Poetry Motel, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Thin Coyote, Haiku Headlines, Nerve Cowboy, Red Owl Magazine, and The Lyric. His chapbook The Cancer Center was published by Bending Tree Press in 2004.