Jerry Brooks Speight holds bachelor of science and master’s degrees from Murray State University and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Memphis. His teaching caree...ver maisJerry Brooks Speight holds bachelor of science and master’s degrees from Murray State University and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Memphis. His teaching career started in Jasper, Indiana, where he taught elementary, middle, and high school art. He also has taught at Somerset Community College in Somerset, Kentucky; Brescia University in Owensboro, Kentucky; and the
University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is presently professor of Art at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, and is a full-time practicing artist who produces and exhibits realistic watercolors and sprayed automobile lacquer-assemblage paintings on metal Alucobond surfaces. He is a published nonfiction writer. “What Mattered Most” is his first fiction project.ver menos