John
John is a bookseller supreme at Eagle Harbor Books. His other main task is as editor of the store newsletter and he is also in charge of our Poetry section. John started at the bookstore in approximately the Late Paleolithic era of prehistory, when the store was a third of its present size and had only one register. In addition to backpacking and hiking, John enjoys cooking, particularly smoked salmon quesadillas topped with crème fraiche and avocado/papaya salsa. John is an accomplished poet with a chapbook, "The Son We Had," published by Blue Begonia Press in 1999, and was recently published in the poetry anthology, Weathered Pages. He has also received the prestigious Pushcart Prize and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Artist Trust of Washington and the King County Arts Commission. John leads a poetry writing workshop through the Bainbridge Island Park District and would like to note that Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living American novelist.
