Richard Scarsbrook is an award-winning author and screenwriter whose short stories and poems have been widely published in literary journals, magazines and anthologies. Royal Blood, the first of Scarsbrook's screenplays to be produced, won Best Short Film at the TIFF-associated Milton Film Festival in 2019, and his last novel, Rockets Versus Gravity, was a National Post bestseller. Richard currently teaches courses in creative writing at the Humber School for Writers and George Brown College. He lives in Toronto.