Harley King

During his more than seventy years on this illustrious planet, Harley King has been gainfully employed as a carpenter, street sweeper, car hop, corn detasseler, hospital orderly, radio announcer, book editor, publisher, freelance writer, bus driver, sports writer, bookkeeper, policy and procedures writer, forms designer, marketing vice-president, corporate executive, professional speaker, facilitator, salesman, trainer, organizational development consultant, ad writer and communications executive. Some jobs he has held for a whole day and others he has held for years. He has also had more than thirty different bosses.

Harley holds a B.A. degree in English, a M.A. in the School of Hard Knocks and is working on a Ph.D. in the Survival of the Unknown Writer.

While Harley grew up in central Illinois, he has managed to visit forty-eight states and has lived in five of them. He has been fortunate to step on the soil of Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Venezuela. He is currently living in Ohio with his wife of over 40 years.

Harley King has been writing and publishing poetry for over 45 years. He spent 7 years writing only haiku. He has published 12 books of poetry and 2 works of non-fiction.

Harley has been speaking on leadership and customer service for over 30 years. He has delivered more than 5,000 presentations. For one nine year stretch, he averaged over 250 presentations a year.

Harley is a certified Zentangle teacher and creates abstract drawings.

Harley is patiently waiting for the big publisher in the sky to turn his books into best-sellers and his poetry into classical literature.