Kevin St. Jarre
Kevin St. Jarre (born July 26, 1968) is an American teacher, author, and former soldier. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in Madawaska, Maine. He finished Madawaska High School in 1986, where he led the chess club and hoped to work in military intelligence.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maine at Fort Kent in 1997 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Maine in 2010, through the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. As of August 2023, he lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
St. Jarre served in the United States Army from 1986 to 1992, working in military intelligence with the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm. After his military service, he was elected to the Madawaska board of selectmen and served as town manager of Grand Isle, Maine. Since 1998 he has worked in the tech industry at Aprisma Management Technologies, while also pursuing teaching roles at various schools and universities, including Caribou High School, Noble High School, Fort Kent Community High School, Massabesic High School, the University of Maine at Farmington, and Cape Elizabeth High School (2014–present).
St. Jarre has been writing since childhood. He published a three-volume military-thriller series in 2005–2006 under the pen name Michael Hawke to avoid typecasting: Night Stalkers, Night Stalkers: Coercion, and Night Stalkers: Homefront. His later work includes Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle (2020), a character-driven novel about a New Hampshire divorcee; Celestine (2021), a science-fiction novel; The Twin (2021); Absence of Grace (2022); The Book of Emmaus (2022); and Paris, California (2023), a story about community displacement.
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