Michael Jasper (photo by Carrie Johnson)
Okay, let’s try to keep this short and snappy — I grew up in the small town of Dyersville, Iowa, home of “The Field of Dreams.”
I’ve been writing fiction since about 1995, when I moved out to North Carolina and attended N.C. State University, but I really started taking it seriously in 2000, when I went to the Writers of the Future workshop for my story “Mud and Salt” (a third-place winner for my quarter). I’ve not looked back since (to which my sore arms and wrists will attest).
I’m a graduate of the 1996 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop (back when it was at Michigan State), a 1997 graduate of the North Carolina State Masters Program in Creative Writing, and a 2009 graduate of the Master Class taught by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
In the past I’ve tried bartending, teaching junior high, painting houses, being a secret shopper, working construction, and many more jobs; I prefer fiction writing. For my day job, I work as a technical writer at a software company.
I live with my wife Elizabeth, our two amazing sons, and Whit the Wonder Pup (a retired racing greyhound) in North Carolina.
Other Places on the Web:
You can also find me here:
- Amazon.com Profile
- Publishers Marketplace page
- LiveJournal (a mirror site, reprinting the journal entries here, more or less)
- LiveJournal Feed (a syndicated version of this journal for LJers)
- Journalscape (archived journal entries from 2002 to mid-2008)
My Email:
Feel free to email me at mjasper at gmail dot com. I’m an email junkie, and I will respond!
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