RW Spryszak came out of Columbia Chicago in
the early 70s before that school was accredited and was still considered "experimental" for its time. He was a member of
Marjorie Peters' Southside Creative Writers Workshop in Chicago then, as well.
But it wasn't until the late 80s that his work began to appear somewhat regularly in alternative, or "altzine," publications
around the country. He could be read in Paper Radio, Version90, Sub Rosa, Asylum,
Tomorrow, Mallife, NRG, and The Lost and Found Times, among others. A good portion of this
material is archived in the John M Bennett Avant Writing Collection at the Ohio State University Libraries. In the early 90s
he edited a few issues of The Fiction Review.
He raised a family from then until the 21st century at which time he resumed his output, finding places like Peculiar
Mormyrid, A-Minor Magazine, Novelty (UK), and a few others to use his writing once again. It was in this period that he began
his work at
Thrice Fiction Magazine and
Thrice Publishing, where he
has been managing editor since 2010. There, he edited
So What If It's True
a collection of work written by the late slam poet Lorri Jackson, and
I Wagered Deep on the Run of
Six Rats to See Which Would Catch the First Fire, an anthology of current surrealist writing from around
the world.
In late 2018 his first novel
Edju
was published by Spuytin Duyvil. It is said to be the first pulse of a trilogy. But, so far, this is only a rumor. He still
resides in the Chicago area.