Richard Wollman was educated at Brandeis University. He received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1994. He is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center at Simmons College.

About Evidence of Things Seen:

"What Wollman himself speaks of, 'the plain grandeur of the ordinary evening,' is true of many of his poems."
—Samuel Menashe

"Stuck on the Bible, stuck on Provence, stuck on New England, stuck on Comparative Literature, Wollman is a miner who does not mind dirtying his face and hands with truth. In this first book, Wollman's evidence, his discoveries, are worth the attention of any thinking reader."
—Stanley Moss