Les Kay
Les Kay is a ne’er-do-well and endlessly promising poet whose promise may one day result in something tangible other than a contributor’s copy or work in the e-learning industry. Years ago, he was a James Michener fellow at the University of Miami, where he received his MFA.
Shortly after graduating from UM, he worked as a convenience store clerk (seriously), a temporary file clerk, a medical editor, and an instructor of English Composition in the DFW Metroplex (which also spawned him). In 2000, he sought out dot-com gold (oops) in the streets of San Francisco as a copyeditor, Instructional Designer, and freelance writer. In 2005, his wife moved him to Cincinnati in search of affordable home prices and room for a yard with multiple dogs. Since then, he has worked as a freelance writer and copyeditor, blogged furiously about the travails of being a promising poet (and caretaker for tiny dogs) at Notes from a Brooding Poet, founded the online magazine Ward 6 Review, nearly completed a long-delayed first manuscript of poems, and surrendered once again to the land of fluorescent cubicles (from which he currently plots an escape).
He also maintains a website dedicated to pimping himself out for business to business freelance work, as well as the egocentric display of his own meager accomplishments. You can find some of his poems, a story and a list of publications at www.leskay.com.
