about Roy Haymond
Born in Natchez, Mississippi, he moved to South Carolina as a teen. Lived with a sharecropper family before attending high school in the Charleston area, where he played clarinet in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. After a hitch in USMC, he attended the University of South Carolina. After graduation, he taught in several disciplines in public schools in the Carolinas. Always supplementing the family income by playing tenor sax in commercial combos, he also did graveyard shifts in convenience stores, sold cemetery lots and cut grass.
Now retired from teaching and a short stint editing a weekly newspaper, he lives in a rural community (no traffic lights or sidewalks) with his (second) wife (Jessie is a published poet) where he writes (published in thirteen states and Canada)and continues to play clarinet and saxophone (in his dreams he is Lester Young and he is a big hit in retirement homes).
(“Mourning Castaway” published in Down in the Dirt , 2010; “Backup Man, Pueblo” in CC&#amp;D, 2011)
