Richard Garfinkle is an American writer of science fiction. He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award and won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.
Richard Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Richard Garfinkle has taught at numerous writers' workshops at the annual Chicago-area science fiction convention Windycon and at the Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention.
