For as long as he can remember, Doug Hyde has been drawn to writing. During a long professional career in law and business, he often wrote, as he says for pay, even though he regularly turned to personal writing to figure things out. Not so long ago, he researched and authored an as-yet unpublished memoir to record family history, stories and childhood memories for succeeding generations. For the past decade, he has con- centrated on poetry, finding it a rewarding discipline for investigating inner lives and external environments, sometimes making sense of them and sometimes prying up more questions. Attracted to both fresh and salt water, Doug currently divides his time between a home in the Lake Champlain islands that he shares with his wife, Margy, and the cottage they occupy seasonally on Elbow Cay, Abaco, Bahamas. These locations often anchor Doug's poetry, as does the small Vermont town in which he grew up. His immediate family includes four adult children, some with partners, together with five grandchildren who occasionally find themselves at the center of a poem. Doug's poetry draws on his affection for outdoor activity: morning walks, bike riding, hiking, boating on Lake Champlain and the Sea of Abaco, gardening, and occasionally fishing. He is an accomplished photographer, and his images often inspire and recur in his writing. During his working career in Boston and Vermont, Doug served on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards. Currently he is president of PERC, Inc., a charity that facilitates grants to qualified community organizations in Abaco, Bahamas.
