Rodney Curtis has worked in a dozen newsrooms in Michigan and the East Coast during his quarter century career. A photographer and photo editor by training, Rodney also counts being an author, blogger and college professor as his many talents. Rodney brags a lot too, but does so under a third-person guise, so it’s okay.

His career has taken him to New Hampshire covering presidential primaries, the former Soviet Union, Haiti, all across Europe and through the mean streets and back-alleys of several Kentucky towns as a Mountain Workshop coach for more than half a dozen years.

He was twice named Michigan Photo Editor of the Year, has won numerous state and national photography and editing awards and has really and truly been named one of “Ten Spiritual Sages to Watch” due to his memoir Spiritual Wanderer. He thinks that’s ridiculous though. His latest book is an ePub and it talks about how he handled getting laid. Sorry, getting laid off from a picture editing job.

His bout with leukemia and his stem cell transplant in 2010 has come to define his current life, although really it’s his wife and daughters who’ve lent all the meaning in the world to his existence. Rodney wishes he could be more like Rick Loomis and cares far too much about the Detroit Tigers and frozen coffees for his own good.