Look and Listen

Biography

Marilyn Haight's multi-faceted career includes positions as corporate manager and director; management trainer; organization development consultant; behavioral-science researcher; entrepreneur; business writer; adult educator...and now, poet. 

Though she began writing poetry in the fifth grade, life and work steered her down a different path, but she secretly returned to poetry whenever she could. Since 2005, she has studied with Master Poet James Masao Mitsui through Arizona State University’s Creative Writing program in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In September, 2011, she published her first collection of poetry, “No One Ever Told Me: Poems for People Over Fifty.” 

Marilyn has also authored three business books: “Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss?” (management/career); “Kissing the Corporate Frog” (leadership); and “The Instruction Writer’s Guide” (education/training/technical writing).

Educational accomplishments include earning a BS in Business Administration at Thomas Edison College in Trenton, NJ; an MS in Organization Development at American University in Washington, D.C.; and an MA in Human Development at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA. 

Marilyn lives in Peoria, Arizona, with her husband, Arnold, a retired high-school English teacher; and Cameo, their Italian Greyhound, who decides when it’s time to move away from the keyboard, turn off the computer and play catch.

Inspiration

Inspired to write about life now that I'm aware of living in an aging body; dealing with ongoing loss; and looking toward a future that is shorter than the past.