Born and raised in Syracuse, NY, Jon G. Kirschner served with the US Navy in Vietnam in 1966. He worked as a Production Foreman and Industrial
Engineer in equipment manufacturing,...view moreBorn and raised in Syracuse, NY, Jon G. Kirschner served with the US Navy in Vietnam in 1966. He worked as a Production Foreman and Industrial
Engineer in equipment manufacturing, and obtained a degree from Syracuse University in Literature and Creative Writing.
Jon's career took him into government where he spent considerable time in the Washington, DC area working for the Department of Defense, and in
Tokyo, Japan, where he managed technical assessment of manufacturers throughout the Pacific Rim. His last assignment for the Defense Contract
Management Agency in Washington was as Agency Liaison to the US Navy.
In addition to a career of writing technical documentation and policy for industry and government, Jon has continued to write fiction, poetry,
social and political commentary. His first short story was published in 1970, and he has been featured as Guest Columnist for the St. Petersburg
Times.
Jon currently divides his time between Woodgate, in the Central Adirondack Region of New York, and Dunedin, along Florida's Gulf Coast.view less