Richard W. Burgin

Richard Weston Burgin was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at Saint Louis University. He was also the founder and publisher of the internationally distributed award-winning literary magazine Boulevard. On October 22, 2020, Burgin died in his sleep at his home in Clayton, Missouri, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His son Richard Burgin is a filmmaker, whom Burgin collaborated with on two short films based on his short stories, All Ears (2016) and The Identity Club (2018). After his death, Fang (2022) was dedicated to Burgin in the end credits.