Derek R BakerDerek Baker is a native of Washington State and spent his High School years in Scottsdale, Arizona. His hobbies are writing, running, hiking, painting, Christian music, and watching the Seahawks play. Derek holds business degrees with honors. He ran he 400 meters also in College. His passion for poetry led him to write a poetry series called Seasons. His niche is that he incorporates paintings that he has done for each of his poems as a way of showing the audience visual interpretations of the mastery and art of expressing oneself. Derek's next goal for writing is to write novels. Read More Read Less