Burl L. Brooks

Burl L Brooks is a man of many talents, horse trainer, poet,

genealogist, husband, uncle and father. Raised in rural Missouri,

on a small horse farm, books and horses were often his only

outlet for a wildly creative imagination. Burl developed a

fascination for writing early in life, it wasn't until much later that

he really started writing in earnest. Burl’s love for books, poetry

in particular, always grabbed his attention. It started with

copying Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson for

girlfriends, then, before he knew it, he was penning “sonnets” of

his own. As he has matured, so has his writing. In the early

1990s, while serving in the USAF Burl was stationed at RAF

Lakenheath north of London, England. While there he got to do a

bit of rambling and even picnicked on the lawn of Cambridge

University. Nowadays, Burl spends most of his time in the saddle,

which inspires him to keep writing, for his love of the written

word is second only to his love of horses. Burl Lee Brooks can

be reached at www.brooks gaitedhorsetraining.com or on Facebook.