Kevin St. Jarre
A portrait photograph of a white man in a blue jacket; he has greying hair on both his head and face and is looking into the camera with a neutral expression.
St. Jarre in April 2011
Born (1968-07-26) July 26, 1968
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Education
Occupations
  • Soldier
  • teacher
  • writer
SpouseJennifer Bragdon
Children3
Writing career
Pen nameMichael Hawke
Genres
Military career
BranchUnited States Army
Years1986–1992
Unit1st Armored Division
ConflictsOperation Desert Storm

Kevin St. Jarre (born July 26, 1968) is an American teacher, author, and former soldier.

Personal life

Son of Cecile and Guy St. Jarre,[1] Kevin St. Jarre was born on July 26, 1968[2] in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He grew up in Madawaska, Maine, and graduated from Madawaska High School in 1986,[3] where he was president of the chess club and wanted to work in military intelligence.[1] St. Jarre earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Maine at Fort Kent in 1997; his 2010 Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Maine[3] was a product of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.[4]

As of July 2005, St. Jarre was married to Jennifer Bragdon, and had three children.[5] As of August 2023 Kevin St. Jarre was living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.[4]

Career

St. Jarre served in the United States Army from 1986–1992, working in military intelligence with the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm.[3] After his enlistment, he was elected to the Madawaska, Maine board of selectmen as well as town manager of Grand Isle, Maine. From 1998, he worked for Aprisma Management Technologies at the corporate level.[5]

Education

Since 1997 through at least 2020, St. Jarre has been teaching, either at universities or high schools, including at Caribou High School (1997–1998), Noble High School (2003–2005), Fort Kent Community High School (2005–2010), Massabesic High School (2010–2014), University of Maine at Farmington (2013–2016), and Cape Elizabeth High School (2014 – at least 2020).[3]

Writing

A writer since childhood, St. Jarre's first sale was to his father for ten cents. St. Jarre has typically been a writer of historical fiction and thrillers.[3]

In 2005–2006, he published a three-volume series of military-thriller novels with characters based on his friends and coworkers:[5] Night Stalkers, Night Stalkers: Coercion, and Night Stalkers: Homefront[2] were respectively released in January 2005, July 2005, and January 2006.[5] St. Jarre used the pen name Michael Hawke because he didn't want to be typecast by that type of fiction.[3]

His novel Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle, published on November 6, 2020, is a character piece about a New Hampshirite divorcé and the unusual people he meets in his new apartment building. St. Jarre's next book, Celestine, was a science-fiction novel[3] released in 2021. That same year, he published The Twin, followed by Absence of Grace and The Book of Emmaus in 2022. In August 2023, his most-recent book was Paris, California, a novel about when community displacement "goes completely off the rails."[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Marin, Mary; Morin, Gail; Voisine, Suzie, eds. (1986). "Seniors". The 1986 Owl. Vol. L1. Madawaska, Maine: Madawaska High School. p. 28.
  2. 1 2 "Kevin St. Jarre (1968 - )". Waterboro Public Library. June 3, 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Murphy, Sean (September 30, 2020). "Cape author's new novel a journey of discovery". Portland Press Herald. Cape Elizabeth, Maine. OCLC 9341113. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved February 3, 2022. Kevin St. Jarre's book, 'Aliens, Drywall and a Unicycle,' features the quirky residents of an apartment building in a fictitious New Hampshire town.
  4. 1 2 3 "Author talk, reading with St. Jarre". The Courier-Gazette. Rockland, Maine. August 11, 2023. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "UMFK to honor Burnette Bowker and Kevin St. Jarre as outstanding alumni". University of Maine at Fort Kent. July 29, 2005. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
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