Meet the Author
Born and raised in East Texas, Jerry Whitus received a bachelor's degree in international business and studied American literature and fiction writing in the graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin. His stories have been published in many leading literary journals, including the Chicago Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Review, and MÄ€NOA. Before turning to fiction, he spent years as a freelance writer specializing in film and video for education, industry, government, and entertainment. Productions he scripted have received many national awards, including three Silver Awards and the Award of Creative Excellence from the International Film and TV Festival of New York, two Silver Screen Awards from the US Industrial Film Festival of Chicago, the Gold Ring Award from the International Association of Business Communicators, two Best
of Texas Awards from the Texas Public Relations Association, and first place at the USAID International Film Festival in Washington, DC. After receiving a master's degree in English as a Second Language, he has been a classroom teacher specializing in writing for international students, an administrator, and teacher-trainer in colleges and universities in the USA, Japan (where he also served in the U.S. Marine Corps), Singapore, Vietnam (on a USAID grant), and Colombia.