Jeff Cooke
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I am almost 30 and a full-time student, giving way to change and exploring new career options. Thanks to a fun-loving and maybe tid bit crazy English teacher, Alison Lewis from Aurora Central High in CO (1998-99), I have had writing in my life. Despite being decent, before her class I never fully gave writing its due until she gave me a shove. Since then it has been a great hobby that one day may turn into a side career. I won a nationwide short story contest through Writing Magazine for a story called "The Boy and Fox" in 1999. Have started and successfully procrastinated two books, which may be finished on my deathbed (but hopefully sooner) and several other poems. I am an outdoor enthusiast by nature, and find it awfully hard to stay inside writing when I want to be outside running amuck and that has hampered my time for writing. I know a solution would be to write outside, but the multitasking is bad for my liver and causes nasty twitches. If destiny, however, takes out my legs...more writings will quickly follow.
Winning Entry: Auditions Shall Proceed to Railcar #5
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2011, Honorable Mention
