Richard Wolkomir & Joyce Rogers Wolkomir

Richard Wolkomir and Joyce Rogers Wolkomir, individually and in collaboration, have written essays and articles for magazines ranging from Smithsonian and Reader's Digest to Wildlife Conservation, Playboy, and National Geographic Magazine.

Their book, Junkyard Bandicoots and Other Tales of the World's Endangered Species, was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

In a chapter of the book, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul, Richard and Joyce told the story of how their Pembroke Welsh corgi, Nosmo, chose them as his people.

The American Society of Journalists and Authors awarded them the June Roth Award for Medical Journalism for their story in the Smithsonian magazine, about a day in the life of a hospital. This story grew out of Joyce's own treatment for acute myelogenous leukemia.

Both Joyce and Richard studied journalism at Syracuse University. After graduating, Joyce served as an editor with Scholastic Magazines, in New York. Richard served as an editor with the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, also in New York. They now live in Vermont.

Currently, both Joyce and Richard have taken new directions in their writing.

Joyce is focusing on memoir, starting with the story of how a Welsh corgi came into her life and helped her survive leukemia.

Richard has returned to an original interest, fiction. Currently he is writing science fiction and fantasy, with novels in the works and stories currently appearing or archived in a variety of literary journals.

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