Richard Sinay was a high school and college English and reading teacher in Orange County, California, for 35 years. He spends most of his time reading and writing. With the completion of Confessions of an English Teacher: How Textbooks Affect Literacy Improvement and What to Do About It, he has eight publications. His first was Who We Met on the Way to Stanford: A Father's Memoir, which is the story of how he and his son met famous golfers while pursuing a golf scholarship at Stanford. His second publication was How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford: A Parent's Guide, intended for parents who want to see their golfer play for Stanford. His third publication, Observations of America and My Ancestral Past: An Epistolary Autobiography, is a daily account of a twenty-five-thousand-mile trip around the country. His subsequent work, Crazy Little Children Are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom: The Estrangement Epidemic in America, examines the phenomenon. Following that, his Confessions of an English Teacher: A Memoir of My Teaching Years is the first of his books about teaching English in California high schools and community colleges.

He followed that with Confessions of an English Teacher: How High School and Community Colleges Can Improve Instruction. Recently, he published Confessions of an English Teacher: All About the Teaching of Writing in High School. He currently resides in Palm Desert, California.