Jeffrey Penn May (Jeff May) won several short fiction awards, received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and was a Homebound Publications Landmark Prize finalist. Jeff has published mountain climbing articles, short stories, poems, education articles and technical writing guides. He wrote and performed a short story for Washington University Radio and was a consultant to a St. Louis theatre company.

After earning his a B.A. in English and Psychology, Masters in Secondary English, and a Writer’s Certificate from the University of Missouri, Jeff worked as a waiter, hotel security officer, credit manager, deck hand, technical data engineer, creative writing instructor, and English teacher. He was the principal of a small alternative school where he organized a fund-raising, climbing expedition and appeared in television and radio spotlights.

Born at Fort Ord near Monterey, California, and raised in St. Louis, Jeff comes from a family of all boys and has always been compelled to explore the outdoors, leading to many questionable “vacations.” His adventures include, but are not limited to the following: floated a home-built wood and barrel raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigated a John boat to New Orleans, drove an old Volkswagen alone 8000 miles around the west, spent a month in a dirt floor shack in west-central Mexico digging for Pre-Columbian artifacts, climbed mountains from Alaska to South America, and spent several days in the Amazon jungle. Visit Jeff’s website at www.askwritefish.com