Stories About Growing Up, Standing Out, and Finding Your Place

Jason Curlee grew up in Edna, Texas under the Friday night lights. He's a former high school and college football athlete turned storyteller, blending grit, heart, and small-town soul into emotionally rich coming-of-age fiction.
 

A lover of U.S. history, Jason has spent years in the classroom helping students understand that history is more than dates and events. It is people making choices, facing pressure, chasing dreams, making mistakes, and trying to figure out where they belong.

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That same belief sits at the heart of his fiction.

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Alongside his wife, Jason is part of Storm Performance Volleyball, a Corpus Christi volleyball program where he coaches, leads, and helps build athletes both on and off the court. Coaching has given him a front-row seat to competition, confidence, failure, accountability, team culture, and the quiet moments when young people start discovering who they really are.

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Those themes show up throughout Jason’s writing.

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Jason began his writing career with the Scion science-fiction thriller trilogy before turning his attention to the small-town, character-driven stories of the Beyond the Goalposts series. His fiction blends sports, friendship, humor, heartbreak, and everyday moments that linger long after they pass. At the heart of his stories are people still figuring out who they are, often caught somewhere between the person everyone sees and the person they are still becoming.

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Whether he is teaching history, coaching athletes, building a business, or writing fiction, Jason is drawn to the same thing: stories that matter because the people in them feel real.