C.W. Spooner

C.W. Spooner was born and raised in Vallejo, CA, graduating from Vallejo High in 1960. He earned a B.S. in Management (no pun intended) from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, and enjoyed a forty-five year career in information technology, primarily in the telecommunications industry. In 2003, he confided to a friend that he'd always wanted to be a writer. The friend asked, "So what's stopping you?" Spooner realized he had no answer to that question. He went to work on his first short story titled "Party Crashers," published in The Storyteller, June 2010. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of national journals, including Lost Coast Review, Spitball Magazine, Balloons Literary Journal, The Halcoyne Review, Sandy River Review/The River, Imitation Fruit, plus anthologies from Main Street Rag, Wising Up Press, and the Lake Forest Writers' Rountable. He has published three novellas, two short story collections, and a collection essays, memoirs, and poems. Spooner currently resides in Orange County, CA, where he pursues his passions for jazz, golf, storytelling, and grandchildren, not necessarily in that order.