Gary ‘Doc’ Krinberg was raised in California where he experienced a significant amount of travel, surfing and dead end jobs to include hot pretzel salesman, strip club barker and bouncer, teamster and junkyard truck driver before embarking on a career as a Medical Deep Sea Diver in the U.S.N. The Navy afforded ‘Doc’ travel and exposure to multiple geographical locations, cultures, and the Gulf War.
Post navy he pursued advanced degrees in education enabling him to teach; specifically English, World History, Humanities, writing and researching for arguments, and literature abroad in Japan, the public system in Hawaii, undergrad and graduate/doctoral students both in Hawaii and mainland U.S.
He is a long suffering Raiders fan.
Doc’s published works, besides his dissertation The Proficiency of Computer Based Placement Students in Higher Education as Compared to Students Who Attend Prerequisite Courses are the literary fictions Polonio Pass and The Deep Slumber of Dogs, and the noir/thriller The Winter Spider (Aignos Publishing, Hawaii). His poetry works are found in Savant Publishing anthologies 58 Stones, Bellwether Messages, and Running From the Pack to include being Editor for the 2018 and 2019 anthologies Kindred and Entwined. His poems also appear in the Lost Tower, U.K. publications Temptation and The Black Rose of Winter.