A resident of Minnesota and Wisconsin since leaving Kansas in 2006, R. A. Savary completed his first novel in 2011, at which time he started writing short stories for magazines and contests. R. A. Savary has been published in several online magazines which include Midlife Collage, Filthy Secret Books, and Flash Fiction World, and most recently in the St. Croix Writer's Anthology, Many Waters. He received an honorable mention in the 2018 Lake Superior Writers annual contest for his flash fiction piece Safety and the same for his entry Change in the 2022 Iron Penn Contest sponsored by the Midwest Writing Center.