Dave Jarecki

Dave Jarecki’s life as a writer started as an eight-year-old right fielder in St. Therese’s Little League, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Not many balls found their way out to the patch of dandelions where he stood swinging his red mitt from the end of his right hand. He had plenty of time to daydream little stories, poems, and other creative ideas that scattered around in his somewhat oversized head.

As fate would have it, baseball got him out of his hometown and into college. While trying to pitch for a small school in southeastern Ohio, he discovered the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, plus the joys of mind-altering chemicals. He traded mitt for pen, grass for grass, and began filling journals with hard-luck love songs.

Four years, two colleges, and many bong hits later, Dave graduated with an English degree from a Big 10 university that prides itself on football and Defense Department contracts.

Soon after, he and his future wife, Courtney, set up camp in the heart of the Beer Belt for a long two years. Dave accidentally started writing copy for a fly-by-night ad agency. His first batch of copy was for a vacuum cleaner; his second for an HVAC company. He realized his job sucked and blew. Ever the rebel, he got himself fired for pairing Birkenstocks with Polo shirts.

In dogged pursuit of living their hippie love dream, Dave and Courtney pushed westward for Portland, Oregon. After one more failed stab at full-time employment, Dave started what has become a 20+ year career as a wordsmith-for-hire.

To date, he’s written for multiple Fortune 500 companies, along with nonprofits, schools, institutes, small businesses, and individuals. We're talking about everything here: brand strategies, web copy, commercials, white papers, blog posts, speeches, presentations, and even the occasional haiku.

Dave has also taught hundreds of writers of all ages in curated workshop settings, board rooms, and on college campuses throughout the U.S. Since 2016, he’s worked on more than two dozen published books as a ghostwriter, editor, and manuscript consultant. If you have an idea for a story, he'd love to hear it.

Today, Dave and Courtney share a home and office in the sticks of Vermont with one almost-teenage daughter, and a gaggle of four-leggers. Dave's a little grayer now than when he pitched his last game. Still, if you ask him, he’ll tell you he's ready to bring his 58-foot slurve to any team that needs a left-handed specialist.