Dick began writing at the tender age of thirteen. While he was in the seventh grade his English teacher Mrs. Benjamin, entered one of his poems in the schools annual writing contest. A second place win was enough to kindle his interest in writing. Dick grew up in Shelby county Ohio and spent many of his formative years with his paternal grandmother. Dick is a mixed blood of Lakota/Scot descent. His grandparents were Ogalala/Sihasapa Lakota and were from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. They were part of the Governments turn of the century assimilation program and located t more...
