Rick Grant is a freelance writer who also moonlights as a psychotherapist.  And vice versa. He has written more than 20 magazine articles for publications such as “Los Angeles,” “Tennis,” “The Wittenburg Door,” “City Sports Monthly,” and “Urban Family.” His book INSPIRED: Churches of Seattle won both a Gold Medal at the Illumination Book Awards and was a Silver Winner at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards. He feigns indignation when people say the awards were mostly about the pictures.

Rick grew up in the tony suburb of Pacific Palisades, CA; for the record, he is working on his elitism and entitlement issues. He could afford to grow up there because his father Perry Grant wrote for 32 different TV shows, including every episode in the 14-year run of the “Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” Seriously.

Rick received a B.A. in History from the University of Washington and a M.A. in Pastoral Counseling from Seattle University. As to the latter, it basically means he can therapize, talk, and write about spiritual stuff.

When not saving the world, Rick is an avid tennis player, having played on the professional tennis tour for a few milliseconds many years ago. When not name-dropping about his father, he invokes his wife Hattie Kauffman, whose challenges as a Native American 4-time Emmy-award winning national news correspondent for CBS News prepared her for their relationship. Together they have 3 children and 8 grandchildren.

Along with writing and shrinking and tennising and husbanding and fathering, Rick enjoys talking about himself in the third person. He thanks you for reading his Bio.