Rick Ochocki

Rick Ochocki is a novelist and writer of creative nonfiction living in Bakersfield, California. His contest-winning flash fiction has been published in the San Diego CityBeat weekly magazine. He is a contributor to BakerfieldExpress, a website promoting arts, culture and civic engagement in Kern County. An active member of Romance Writers of America, Rick is the librarian for the Los Angeles Romance Authors, chapter 25 of RWA. During an eight year Emergency Medical Service paramedic career in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods of New York City, Rick received the Medal of Honor for saving a stranded infant from an apartment fire.