Bio
Kyle grew up in Livingston, LA though he tells most people it was Baton Rouge because that’s a place most people have heard of.
His mother was a reader, and she impressed upon him the power of the written word. She bought him books by the bundle, and he devoured them. Graduating from little readers, to Golden Books, to ‘Freckle Juice,’ to Ramona Quimby to Stephen King’s ‘Pet Cemetary’ in rapid secession. Like many readers he yearned to write his own stories.
In Junior High he started writing stories that impressed his classmates, teachers and most of all his mother. She still insists he publish the one about the talking cockroaches exacting revenge on humanity. English teachers scrawled encouraging comments in the margins of his essays and forays into fiction. He began think he might be a real, live writer one day.
He graduated from Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication in December of 2000. He continued working at the department store where he been employed throughout college, writing when he could, but mostly climbing a career ladder into management.
In 2004 he and his wife, Sadie, moved to Lexington, KY so she could pursue a PhD in Pharmacology. For the first few months he worked part-time as a bank teller and finished the first draft of a novel he had begun a few months before the move.
Soon he was working full-time for a different, larger bank and editing and re-editing the novel when he could. He began to see his short fiction published in online literary journals and print anthologies. He soon grew disgusted with the novel and declared it a trunk novel.
During this time he also became one of the founding editors of and contributors to the now defunct website, oneadamtwelve.com, and wrote several reviews for the site.
The full-time teller job turned into a management job. Kyle wrote when he could, publishing a few articles in local weekly magazines, as well as the short story ‘Terminal’ in the Literary Cash Anthology. Work on any long form fiction grew to a halt.
He excelled at his management career earning the praise of his peers and formal accolades from the company.
In 2008 Sadie finished her graduate work and accepted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Endocrinology Department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
Kyle has returned his focus to his writing career. He is at work on a new novel and has the threads for several short stories scribbled in notebooks and saved in computer files.
His goal his to combine his talents for writing and management into a business.