Richards, Trudi

Trudi Lee Richards is a California poet, writer and translator.

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s, she wrote her first book, Jimmy Giraffe, at the age of 10. A few years later she entered Stanford University, took LSD, and discovered that she did not know why she was alive. The English Department did not seem to know either, so she tried other routes, including marriage, conceptual art, Transcendental Meditation, Abilitism, EST, Rebirthing, Oming for world peace, a second marriage, and, finally, children, who knocked some sense into her.

Aghast at the crazy violence of the world, terrified that her children would die in a nuclear holocaust, she began working for peace and nonviolence, both personal an social, with Silo's Humanist Movement - and to her amazement, her fear evaporated. It was with the humanists that she met her first true love. Together they raised three children, published an independent newspaper, and traveled widely, until he moved on to other realms. In the new millennium she settled with her second love in Northern California to continue writing, nurture a community of friends inspired by Silo's Message, help build a Park of Study and Reflection in Red Bluff, and and to learn to play Bach on the keyboard. She publish in 2016 On Wings of Intent: a Biography of Silo - Mario Luis Rodriguez Cobo - "Sage of the Andes" - 1938-2010 Her other publications include Soft Brushes with Death, Experiences on the Threshold, and Fish Scribbles.