About
Jack Greer is a writer and environmentalist currently living in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. He is also a sailor, hiker, biker, drummer, husband, father, and now grandfather. For most of his adult life he lived in Annapolis, Maryland, writing about marine science and the Chesapeake Bay for the University of Maryland Sea Grant College. He won a President’s Award from the U of MD Center for Environmental Science for his contributions to Bay policy, and two awards from the Maryland Arts Council for his fiction, as well as commendations from the governor of Maryland for his environmental work. He has degrees in English literature from the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and the University of Maryland, with a program of summer study at the University of London. He and his wife, Bobbie, have sailed as a couple throughout the Chesapeake, and from New England to the Caribbean as far south as Grenada.
Featured Work
Abraham's Bay & Other Stories
The restless characters in Abraham’s Bay & Other Stories have set sail for islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Some seek adventure and are in love with roaming, others are running from their past. Inevitably, these small boat sailors haul their personal histories along, their hubris, their failures, their frustrations. They anchor in faraway coves, make night passages across reef-strewn waters, contend with storms and with themselves. The characters of these eleven stories often seem to exist at the edges of the larger world. "Grab a hot toddy and prepare for the ride." — Cruising World magazine
