Guinotte Wise

Guinotte Wise has been a creative director in advertising most of his working life. In his youth he put forth effort as a bullrider, ironworker, laborer, funeral home pickup person, bartender, truckdriver, postal worker, ice house worker, paving field engineer. A staid museum director called him raffish, which he enthusiastically embraced. (the observation, not the director) Of course, he took up writing fiction.

GW welds and writes on a farm in Resume Speed, KS. He welded a collection of short stories, Night Train, Cold Beer, that won the H Palmer Hall award and publication. He fixed the soffits with the money. (Pecan Grove Press, available on Amazon). His novel Ruined Days (Black Opal Books) was published in Dec. 2015, and a second book of short stories, Resume Speed (Black Opal Books) was published June, 2016

His work has been allowed into numerous literary reviews and anthologies Including Atticus, Thrice Fiction, The MacGuffin and Best New Writing Anthology 2015. His wife has an honest job in the city and drives 100 miles a day to keep it. Some work can be seen at http://www.wisesculpture.com/blog/ and https://www.facebook.com/RenoPeteStCyr?fref