Philip C. Jackson

For nine years, I rode race horses as a professional jockey at major race tracks throughout America. Forced to retire from race riding with the onset of Multiple Sclerosis at age thirty-two, I have been fortunate in pursuing my next love; the “not-so-physical” sport of writing. I won the New Mexico division of the Philip Morris Magazine National Essay Writing Contest in 1987. Published in American Voices, and spurred-on by the success of “Freedom Falling” therein, I have continued on the path to authorship with the completion of three novels. Since 1988 I have attended critique groups. A SPY WEARS TWO HATS is a historical-fiction young adult novel taking place in the summer of 1862.