One time investment advisor and executive at a leading Milwaukee brokerage, the multi-talented Richard Ryan is also the author of Goldilocks in Later Life and of work that's appeared in The New Republic, Exquisite Corpse, Yellow Silk, the Denver Quarterly, and other publications. He has worked as a German translator in the U.S. Army and as an undercover black market investigator in Germany. Now he divides his time between Wisconsin and the Sonoma coast of California. The Golden Road was published in the States as The Golden Rules.