C.
E. Shy has been writing since the seventh grade. He continued writing through
high school, until he became more involved in sports. After his graduation, he
worked at the White Motors Company where he wrote for the company’s newspaper.
He started a column called: “The Poet’s Corner.” That was his first published
work.
With
a one-way ticket, he moved to Sweden. He met a Swedish photographer and started
writing narratives for some of the photographs which were sold to newspapers
and magazines.
After
returning to the US, he joined a poetry workshop that was run by Russell Atkins
and Norman Jordan from 1966 to 1968. He stopped writing for years, then started
to write again in the late 90s, crafting novellas, flash fiction and poetry. He
joined a writing workshop in Cleveland, Ohio in 2011 to hone his writing
skills.
