Coach Culbertson

Coach Culbertson is the Technical Editor of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, and the editor of an upcoming genre anthology, Coach's Midnight Diner. He also served as Technical Editor to Burnside Writers Collective in the production of their fiction anthology, The Ankeny Briefcase.And that's just what he does in his spare time.

For money, he works as a Technical Instructor for New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Chicago, and makes regular appearances in the Top Ten Instructors in the World list (based on student surveys). He builds web sites on the side for fun and profit and specializes in content management systems. He also has no shame whatsoever.

Coach also served a tour of duty as a inner city high school teacher at Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago where he regularly broke up fights and taught computers, sometimes simultaneously. He and his wife ended up adopting two of the kids and quickly found out that teenagers are expensive, thus forcing a retreat back to corporate America. The kids are all grown up now, and his daughter and her husband recently had a baby, making Coach a grandpa at the ripe old age of 29 (Of course, Coach has been 29 for several years now, and will continue to be as long as he has hair. Then he'll turn 30).

Pretending to be a novelist when he isn't waist high in layout work or site building, Coach has completed a fourth draft of his novel, Coffee Shop Saints, and has built a nifty web site for it that is in desperate need of a content refresh. Since he isn't nearly as cool as the rest of the writers on Writer's Cafe, he will probably have to do a fifth, sixth, and seventh draft of the novel before it's anywhere close to being readable or publishable. He also keeps an irregularly updated blog at coachculbertson.com, where he does not talk about himself in the third person.