Jerry is America’s premier coffee novelist, perhaps because he is the only one. He has written two full length novels with titles too coffee centric for most, Tripio and The Trier. Jerry began his career in coffee during the late 1980s. He has done a variety of jobs in the coffee business, from throwing 132 pound bags of green coffee off the back of a semi to throwing drunken customers out of his pioneering Starbucks store in Chicago. As a result he is able to create worlds where coffee is nearly a living character and not a trendy plot affectation.

Jerry began journaling and writing after leaving college and worked twenty years in coffee. Writing has always been a type of meditative practice for him. In order to keep his mind in a place of energized calm so that he can sit down to write, he does yoga, meditates, journals, reads and tries not to take it all too seriously. His four young adult children make sure of that.