Kevin Webster’s Autobiographical Introduction

Grayson Highlands, VA: Fall, 2007 (yes, that is a dog with a lampshade, poor guy)

Hello world, my name is Kevin Webster. On January 6^th, 1987, my very sweet mother, Kathy, gave birth to me in the now dwindling city of High Point, North Carolina. After living there for about three years, our house, consisting of myself, my mother, my father, and my older sister, was broken into prompting us to move to a nearby growing town of Trinity, North Carolina, where I lived for 17 years before moving to Boone, North Carolina to attend Appalachian State University.

During my years as a child, I loved to play sports, ride bicycles, be outside (hiking, running, etc), and play music (I have been playing guitar since I was in fifth grade). These interests primarily led me to become a student at ASU, already having known and experienced many places throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. Just recently I have taken a liking to photography after receiving my first camera just over a year ago. Ever since, I have been documenting my life and my family’s life through the photographs of my travels throughout the United States. Just recently I visited the Grand Canyon, and even more recently I finally got to see my nation’s capital, Washington D.C.

When I was a Senior in high school, I figured out that I liked to read. Imagine that! So, when I enrolled at ASU, I figured heck! I’ll keep reading. I liked reading so much that I decided to become an English major. And after reading so much, I found out that I also like to write. Some thought that I wrote quite nicely and were kind enough to publish one of my poem’s in the first edition of The Peel, Appalachian State’s revived literary art magazine. If you find it, you might have a hard time finding my name because I used a pen name to publish it.

After pondering on why it took me so long to get interested in books and novels, I figured heck! I’ll become a teacher. But, more seriously, I felt a strong calling to be apart of my community, to be a catalyst for future generations, and I wanted to be in a position where I could make significant impacts on others’ lives and vice versa.

My favorite authors are Paul Beatty, Mark Twain, and Haruki Murakami. I liked to read other people’s personal poetry but I don’t like to let people read mine, not really fair is it? Those people are my favorite poets.

In the Fall of 2009, I will begin my student teaching, who knows where, and I look forward to it a lot. In the future, I would like to do other things than teach like: work on a farm, be a cowboy, be a writer, or work for a nonprofit organization.

This is my favorite photograph that I have ever taken (it was a lot of peoples’ Christmas present this past year):

Shosone Point, Grand Canyon: October, 2008

Kevin Webster