Richard Kim Millsap
Author’s
Biography
Richard Kim Millsap is an experienced
free-lance writer, reviewer, blogger, poet and composer. He was a public school
educator in Colorado Springs for 28 years, serving as music teacher to elementary
and middle-school students. After retirement, he invested an additional seven-plus
years serving the particular patrons of Glen Eyrie, a private Christian
conference center owned by The Navigators. Kim currently works in a volunteer
capacity as content editor and sometime contributor for the newsletter and
web-site of Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
Kim holds a M.M. in Music History and
Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Music Education from
Arkansas Tech University. Additional formal coursework includes The University
of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as well
as numerous workshops, extensions and conferences across the United States.
Kim somehow found time as an
educational and business writer and editor, creating the various student
handbooks and instructional content across the years. At Glen Eyrie, Kim solidified
and co-authored the standard operating procedures for Guest Services as well as
serving as principal administrator for social media. He has participated in
writer’s conferences in Colorado with Angela Hunt, Nancy Rue and Kathryn Mackel;
and in Washington with Garth Stein.
Whilst at Glen Eyrie, Kim became
especially intrigued by the life of Civil War officer William Jackson Palmer,
founder of Colorado Springs. With strong tie-ins to his additional interests in
western living and literature, firearms and ballistics, camp-style cuisine,
brass instruments and various historical locales came the seminal ideas for Cheyenne Swirling.
As a former band and choral director,
Kim has presented his students in hundreds of concerts and addressed audiences
comprised variously of students, parents, patrons and conference attendees.
Having also presented formally in Colorado and Ontario, he is a confident and
adept public speaker. If Kim has any particular claim to fame otherwise, it is
as a founding member of the Academy District Twenty classic rock group,
Mid-Life Crisis.
Kim’s book and film reviews may be
found on Amazon (writing as Russell de Ville). See his blog at
lucidnoodle.blogspot.com. He is also conscientiously active on Facebook.
Cheyenne Swirling is the author’s first novel.
