Jeremy Brizzi

Jeremy Brizzi (born in McHenry, IL, October 8, 1976) is an American writer and musician.

Jeremy graduated from Cary-Grove High School in 1994, attending McHenry County College as a music major college and Western Illinois University as a business management major before choosing discipline and direction through the United States Army.

He attended basic training at Fort Jackson, SC with the 2–39th Infantry and AIT at Fort Gordon, GA, as a 31F. His first duty station was also at Fort Gordon, GA with B Company 67th Signal Battalion. After only a few months he was transferred to Fort Drum, NY where he served the remainder of his enlistment with the 10th Mountain Division.

While in the Army, Jeremy served in Bosnia with the 10th Mountain division, made commandants list in PLDC, graduated from airborne training and was honorably discharged after four years of active duty as a Sergeant.

Jeremy was married in March 1997 and divorced in June 2003. He has a daughter, born in 1998 from this marriage.

In October 2004, Jeremy took a position as a volunteer contractor with ITT Industries and worked a year in Iraq, serving as the night shift manager of the Victory Base telecommunications system.

While working in Iraq, Jeremy wrote and recorded his first album, Hot Hibernation. During this year he also self-published the previously mentioned OverCaffeinated under his publishing company Bulldog7 Publishing and Recording.

After leaving Iraq, he moved to New York City for one year and worked as a Project Manager / Administrator for Evergreene Painting Studios before deciding to move back to Chicago.

He is currently living in Chicago, works as Director of Incident Management for Global Capacity, and owns Crush Multisport, LLC.

Bibliography

OverCaffeinated (Bulldog7 Publishing and Recording, 2005) Genre: Poetry / Creative writing.