C. T. Markee

RECENT PUBLISHED WORK:

- a short story, Hills Like Brown Camels in the Redwood Writers 2011 anthology, "The Sound of a Thousand Leaves,"

- a short story The Bear in both the Redwood Writers 2012 anthology, "Call of the Wild," and the San Mateo 2012 literary anthology, "Carry the Light,"

- an honorable mention contest winning memoir, Kauai Odyssey, in the 2012 Redwood Writers Conference

- Unwanted Eyes, Chapter 9 of the mystery serial, "Sonoma Squares" in the June, 2012, Santa Rosa Press Democrat newspaper.

- Home Invasion, Chatper 3 of the mystery serial, "Sonoma Squares II" in the April 2013, Santa Rosa Press Democrat newspaper.

PREVIOUS PUBLISHED WORK:

- poetry in the literary magazine, First Leaves and

- flash fiction on the literary website, tiny-lights.com

- The ILLIAC IV: The First Supercomputer (credited in bibliography)

SCHOOL VISITS

- Calistoga Elementary School, Calistoga, California, 6th grades, May 24, 2012

- Mary Collins Cherry Valley school, Petaluma, California, 6th grades, September 5, 2012

EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND

Charles was co-editor of the Redwood Writers 2012 anthology, Call of the Wild

and a member of both the Redwood Writers a branch of the California Writer's Club (CWC)

and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

He is also coordinator and meeting moderator for North Bay SCBWI workshops.

While writing his first two novels, he attended six semesters of college level creative writing, and eight years of writing workshops and conferences. His recent works of fiction followed technical writing, newsletters and magazine articles during his career as a technical manager in the Silicon Valley computer industry.

LIFE MEMBERSHIPS:

University of California at Berkeley alumni.

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Today he and his wife share life in their moonview cabin, tucked away on 1-1/2 acres of oak forest in a valley northeast of Santa Rosa where his focus continues to be writing middle-grade children's novels.