About me
Creekmore56@msn.com
I recently retired from a 36-year career as a wildlife Disease biologist.
MSgt USAF Retired, 1975-2017
My wife Lynn is a wildlife veterinarian and the brains of the family. We live in the suburbs (13 miles out) of Livermore CO, population single digits.
Like many writers, I have an 80K fiction novel (historical fiction featuring a Native American wildlife biologist and Iraq war vet) looking for the right publisher. I recently completed a 130K memoir about my career as a wildlife biologist, during which time I conducted field work in 36 states and several countries. Northern Maine to southern California, south Florida to north Washington, throw in several months in the jungles of Hawaii, and living in caves on uninhabited Mona Island, it was a career filled with adventures. Mice to moose, darting bears and mountain lions, capturing Trumpeter swans and peregrine falcons, and necropsying all manner of wildlife to determine the cause of death. I also spent quite a bit of time flying close to the ground in small, fixed wing aircraft, or buzzing two hundred feet above the terrain in a helicopter, counting or net gunning wildlife.
Prior to retirement, my writing was limited to approximately twenty articles in peer reviewed scientific journals: publications of interest only to those possessing the proper type of geek. My decades old membership in the Wildlife Disease Association garnered many friendships and contacts around the world, contacts of limited utility in my newly chosen endeavors, so last year I joined OWAA and attended the conference in VT. I began writing wildlife related magazine pieces and have had several features published in Bugle Magazine. My goals for OWAA are to learn the craft of popular writing, generate contacts among fellow writers, and maybe make a friend or two along the way.