Brought Into Light: The Making of Memoir: A Penultimate Writing Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781729841174)

A native of Santa Barbara, CA, Jon Obermeyer is a graduate
 of Westmont College. He holds the Master of Fine Arts in 
Creative Writing degree from the University of North Carolina
 at Greensboro, where he earned a graduate fellowship and served as Associate Editor of The Greensboro Review. Jon is the author of twelve books of creative work, including The Reassurance of Ghosts, Salsipuedes, Occupational Hazards and Wingspan (poems), The Winter Practice and Centripetal Force (short stories), The Low Wire: Meditations on Loss and Creative Restoration (essays), It Happens That Fast, Briarcliff, The Harbor and The Guests (memoir) and Myriad: A Poet's Guide to the Writing Life Jon's short stories have appeared
 in Equator, Cities & Roads, and O.Henry Festival Stories. His story "Not Really Mine to Give" was runner-up in the 1982 Santa Barbara News & Review fiction contest. Clyde Edgerton selected his short story "Confessions of a Pacifist" for publication in the North Carolina Writers Network's Fiction Syndication Competition. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the News & Review and The New York Times. Jon's poetry has been a two-time finalist for the James Applewhite Prize, sponsored by North Carolina Literary Review. His poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, International Poetry Review, A Carolina Literary Companion, Spectrum, Spectrum 60th Anthology, Blue Pitcher, Coraddi, Phoenix, Santa Barbara Magazine, Stroke Connection Magazine, Northern Virginia Review and in the Greensboro writers anthology, Edge of Our World. In his career, he has been a banker, business owner, marketing director and a business development executive in the fields of advertising and public relations, regenerative medicine, nanotechnology and digital media. He is the father of two adult daughters and lives in Durham, NC.