Richard Grossinger was born in New York City, attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan and has a PhD in anthropology from a study of fishermen in Maine.
After he taught college for seven years, he and his wife Lindy Hough converted their small literary publishing company into a trade publishing company and ran it for the next 45 years, 17 of them together.
Grossinger was invited to develop his own imprint at Inner Traditions, Sacred Planet Books.
Grossinger is the author of 40+ books, his major themes being healing, cosmology, embryology, and consciousness.