JEFFERY G HESS
Anesthesiologist Assistant at Antietam Ct, Tampa, FL

Founder/Leader at DD-214 Writers Workshop, Freelance Writer and Editor at Self-employed

Writing and Editing

DD-214 Writers Workshop since Dec 2007 - Founder/Leader Self-employed since Jun 1998 - Freelance Writer and Editor ITT Technical Institute May 2007 - Jun 2008 - Adjunct English Composition Instructor University of South Florida Apr 1996 - Jun 1998 - Communications Specialist Tech Data Dec 1994 - Apr 1996 - Technical Writer Glacier I.C.E., Inc. May 1994 - Sep 1994 - Overseas Communications Liaison - internship The Tampa Tribune Dec 1993 - May 1994 - Research Assistant - internship US Navy Jul 1983 - Dec 1989 - Interior Communications Technician P.O. 2 (SW)

Queens University of Charlotte 2003 - 2005
MFA, creative writing University of South Florida 1990 - 1994
BA, English

Creative Writing, Developmental and copy editing, Creative Writing instruction

Writing, Editing, Reading, Sports, and Exercise. Always looking to add members to the writing workshop and work privately (including long distance) with writers with military backgrounds, even if they write about topics other than the military. Seeking agent representation for a completed 64,000-word novel manuscript, Scar Tissue, the story of a forty-year old workaholic who abandons everything he owns for a stripper with a death wish.

Winner, Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal; Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Award: Finalist, New Letters Fiction Prize 2002; Honorable Mention, CNW/FWA Writing Competitions 2000 (novel chapter) and 2001 (short story). Writing has appeared or is forthcoming in: Midway Journal; O Dark Thirty; Needle; Plots with Guns; Shotgun Honey; Prime Number Magazine; r.kv.r.y.; The MacGuffin; The Houston Literary Review; Writer’s Journal; American Skating World Magazine; The Tampa Tribune; Wordsmith; and others.