A writer with many more stories to tell

Rick Neumayer’s fourth book of fiction, Three Foggy Mornings (2025), is a collection of 33 short stories written from 1974-2020, plus two essays about writing. Inspired by travel, incidents, and current events, many of these stories are autobiographical, combining real life events with fictive elements for dramatic effect. Many were previously published in literary magazines. Three Foggy Mornings follows Rick’s third novel, The Little Green Men Murders (2024), the second in his Jim Guthrie PI series, which began with Hotwalker (2021). Rick’s debut novel, Journeyman (2020), is an epic hitchhiking journey set in 1971 from Louisville, Kentucky, to a Haight-Ashbury commune in San Francisco.

Three of Rick’s full-length Broadway-style musical collaborations have been produced. A career teacher, he has had a wide variety of experiences, including working as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, literary magazine editor, singer in rock bands, and a traveler who has visited over 30 countries. The Louisville native and resident has degrees from Spalding University (MFA), University of Louisville (MA), and Western Kentucky University (BA). For 52 years Rick was married to the late visual artist and teacher Cora Rouse Neumayer (1943-2024). His daughter Carrie is an art therapist, visual artist, and musician. His son-in-law, Darcy Thompson, is the founder and executive director of The Louisville Story Program.