Kevin St. Jarre’s latest novel CELESTINE is, like his previous novel ALIENS, DRYWALL, AND A UNICYCLE, published by Encircle Publications. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Popular Fiction, from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. He has studied at the Norman Mailer Writers Center on Cape Cod with Sigrid Nunez and David Black. He has worked as a teacher, a professor, a newspaper reporter, an international corporate consultant, and led a combat intelligence team in the first Gulf War. He penned a series of original action thrillers for Berkley Books, he’s an essayist, his Pushcart-nominated short fiction has appeared in journals such as Story and Solstice Literary Magazine, and he is a member of International Thriller Writers. He lives on the coast of Maine, but grew up in its northernmost town, Madawaska.