My name is Eric Poor and I’m a writer. I spent 17 years working as a reporter for the award-winning weekly newspaper The Monadnock Ledger, now known as the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, a twice weekly community newspaper. During my newspaper career I won numerous writing awards from the New Hampshire Press Association (NHPA).

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    Those eighteen awards include recognition for investigative reporting, education reporting, editorial writing, sports columns, serious columns, humor columns, spot news reporting, spot news photography, business reporting, and feature writing. I was twice named Columnist of the Year by the NHPA.

    I am an avid outdoor sportsman and I have been an outdoor columnist for 20 years for Hawkeye, New Hampshire’s outdoor sports newspaper. I have also free-lanced stories to publications like the New Hampshire Wildlife Journal and the Keene Sentinel Newspaper. 

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    Now retired from the grind and deadlines of newspaper reporting I am working at becoming a novelist.  I have written a 95,000 word novel of suspense titled “Hammerhead,” and I’m done with the first drafts of sequels named “The Road Through Success” and “Stark Reality.” I’m also an occasional poet who is getting used to the concept of reading aloud before a crowd – pretty scary thing.

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    In past lives I have been a commercial fisherman, construction worker, fork lift operator, tank commander, junior executive, bartender/bar manager, and land manager, board member on behalf of  the Monadnock Writer’s Group, emergency services photographer and EMT, and public information officer for the Rindge Fire Department.