The Jackhammer Elegies
Stefan Jaeger was born in 1952 in Bloomington, Indiana, and received a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After graduation, he pursued an interest in writing fiction and spent numerous years living abroad, including Europe, South America, and the Middle East, teaching English as a second language and in the interim receiving a master's degree in applied linguistics from Indiana University. In 1984 he settled in the Washington, D.C., area and there began his ongoing work for engineering associations, with an initial focus in the editorial arena. His most recent position is managing director with the American Society of Civil Engineers in Reston, Virginia.