Biography: Kirk L. Bjornsgaard

Kirk L. Bjornsgaard has lived "the writer's life" as a media relations manager, an editor, and a journalist. He is currently Acquisitions Editor for regional (Oklahoma) titles for the University of Oklahoma Press, in Norman.

He formerly held the same position at PennWell Publishing, where he was responsible for soliciting and acquiring new titles and in several cases, co-wrote books or contributed chapters to anthologies. He wrote the lead-off "North America" chapter in the International Electric Power Encyclopedia and shared co-author credit on Electric Power Generation: A Nontechnical Guide.

As a freelance writer/editor and radio news reporter and anchor, Bjornsgaard contributed to several Tulsa-area feature and business magazines and worked for corporations and advertising
agencies on contract. He scripted a number of videos for an independent production company and worked by assignment for NewsTalk740 KRMG, Oklahoma's leading news-talk station, where he anchored Sunday morning newscasts and for seven years covered the always volatile Tulsa City Council.

Born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa. (author James Michener's hometown) Bjornsgaard was graduated from Bard College in 1973 with a B.A. in English. After working for several
Philadelphia-area newspapers, he went to work for Sunoco, Inc. as a Public Relations Manager. He transferred to Tulsa with Sunoco in 1984.

Married to his college sweetheart, Noma Krasney, Ph.D., Bjornsgaard has son and a daughter. The couple has two pure-bred Shetland Sheepdogs and four cats (all of whom tolerate one
another wonderfully).

Writing:

Haven Beach

Working Without A Net

Tin Soldiers