Richard Andrew Olkusz, “Ricky” to his friends and family, is on a life mission - to perfect his words and bring poetic dimension to a secondary world. The diverse experiences that accompanied his eighteen-year surveying career profoundly shaped his life. The daily measuring of real estate and construction properties fueled his love of poetic description, humorous anecdotes, spiritualism, and paranormal investigation. 

 

Ricky and his business partner, Dave, ran Olkwood publishing since 2007, where they developed rules for a tabletop R.P.G. and created “Afternity.”

 

Ricky works from home drafting maps using Autocad, he continues to write novels, poetry, and short stories, which have yielded nearly two million words of fiction overall.

 

Ricky supports the pursuit of creative obsessions by hosting Writing Process and Poesy Poetry Spaces on X  and providing writing process instruction (Mount Timeless Productions).