Devin Poore



Devin Poore thinks it sounds odd to write about himself in the third person, so he won’t be doing that in his bio. I was born and raised in rural Indiana, where the world was evidently black and white. My family was very supportive of my odd habits of model building and reading everything I could get my hands on. My devotion to those activities are why I didn’t have much of a social life in high school. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

	After high school I joined Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club, where I served six years as a missile systems technician and operator. During that time I visited many exotic and filthy ports o’ call and I read even more (you’d be surprised how much of that ACCELERATE YOUR LIFE! stuff in the Navy commercials entails sitting on your ass). During that time I began to write. It was cheaper than therapy. After the Navy, a few side routes and detours led me back to New York City. Since then I have worked several tolerable jobs, picked up model building again, and I continue to write.

I have finished two novels and multiple short stories for which I am diligently seeking homes. I am also continually working on at least one or two pieces for the New York Times "Disunion" feature. I continue to attend meetings with my writing group Altered Fluid and do whatever is required of me for Sybil’s Garage. I currently live amid the pug dogs and Hummers in Hoboken, NJ, with my beautiful, and just a little silly, wife Kristen Mangione.