Steven Kendus is a marketing and communications specialist with more than 20 years of marketing and technical writing experience and more than ten years of executive management experience. He serves as the director of marketing and communications for the University of Delaware’s Graduate College and Division of Professional and Continuing Studies. He has served as an adjunct instructor in UD’s Department of English since 2014. Mr. Kendus founded The Writer’s Block in 1993 and MyHouseSpecs.com in 2000, and he has assisted organizations in enhancing their productivity and identity through marketing, corporate communications, and employee education.

Mr. Kendus is also a professional author, columnist, technical writer, copy writer, and editor. He wrote Hunting The First State: A Guide to Delaware Hunting, wrote a regular outdoors column for The News Journal, and contributes articles to various outdoors-related magazines. He served as executive director for Electronic Payment Exchange; vice president of marketing for QED Financial Systems; manager of technical education and corporate communications for Integrated Software Solutions, Inc.; director of product communications for eCal Corporation; senior technical writer for EXE Technologies; and training program designer for The Bank of New York (Delaware).

He is a member of various professional organizations, including the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the Delaware Press Association (DPA), and the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA).