Poet, novelist and folklorist, A. R. “Rich” Eskew was born in Texas, was raised in Missouri, and re-settled in Alaska. He is a world traveler and has lived and worked overseas for fifteen years.

“At age eight, I was imprisoned by the works of Jack London and Robert Service, the two men who eventually carried me along to the Yukon and Alaska and gave me a start to the real adventures of life!”

A real modern-day adventurer, Rich has survived in the Alaskan wilderness, trod the Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo, and traveled from the heights of the Himalayas to the sands of Rub’ al Khali on the Arabian Peninsula. He has even taken a page from Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises and “run with the bulls” in Pamplona, Spain.

“If possible, I want to live what I read,” Rich wrote in “A Whisker’s Luck,” his first piece of poetry at the tender age of ten. Rich lives by the adage, “If you put your head in a bucket, you ain’t gonna know nothing but bucket."

Rich and his wife, Gloria, currently reside in Springfield, Missouri. Each year they travel on the Alcan Highway back to their roots in Fairbanks, Alaska, to spend time with their son and grandchildren as well as renew lifelong friendships.