About

Richard K. Perkins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and grew up in two New England villages and suburbs of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He has been a tactical naval aviator, an intelligence officer, and a systems engineer in the aerospace sector. Perkins is a US Naval Academy graduate who earned graduate degrees from the National Intelligence University, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces before he became a regular contributor to The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review from 2014 to 2016. He has been working on two historical novels and two collections of stories since then. He lives with his wife in Southeastern Virginia.