Jeff Coomer

JEFF COOMER grew up in the middle-class suburbs east of Baltimore. After receiving a BA in political science from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, he stumbled into a career in IT that ended with a long stint as the chief information officer for a division of a Fortune 500 company. He and his wife, Susan, raised two children on eighteen wooded acres in the rural countryside of central Maryland, a frequent setting for his poems. They are now enjoying a peaceful retirement back in Chestertown, where he spends much of his time writing poetry and wandering around outside with no particular purpose in mind.

In addition to his two LAST LEAF PRESS poetry collections, Jeff's work has been published in numerous print and online journals and featured on the former National Public Radio program The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, now available online and as a podcast.