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The author a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history, Robert Richter has a fifty-year relationship with the American High Plains and with Latin America. Those cultural geographies inspire his work. In 2000 Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council's Literary Achievement Award for nonfiction, and in 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires. His fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies about the American West and Latin America. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Mexico and Argentina.
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The author of a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history, Robert Richter has a fifty-year relationship with Latin America, and that cultural geography inspires his work. In 2000 Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council's Literary Achievement Award for nonfiction, and in 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Latin America. Besides the 'Something' series, Richter's other books on Mexico include Search for the Camino Real: a history of San Blas and the Road to get there; Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Roots of Mexico's New Democracy; and Sayulita: Mexico's Lost Coastal Village Culture, which received the Silver Award in the multicultural division of the Kopps-Fetherling International Book Awards in 2020.
