Rick Krizman

Rick Krizman was born in Kansas City, Kansas, but eventually found his way to Southern California, where he nurtured a decades-long career as a songwriter and Emmy Award-winning composer for film and television. He now holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University and has published dozens of stories and essays in journals such as sneaker wave magazine, The Wising Up Press, Sediment, Flash Fiction Magazine, Star 82 Review, Medusa’s Laugh Press, Driftwood, Switchback, The Big Smoke America, and so forth. Rick is the father of two grown daughters and lives with his wife and other animals in Santa Monica, CA, where he enjoys jamming on his Moog synthesizer and slow-smoking the toughest parts of the pig. Big Sausage is his first novel.