[1] St. Jarre earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Maine at Fort Kent in 1997; his 2010 Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Maine[3] was a product of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

[4] St. Jarre served in the United States Army from 1986–1992, working in military intelligence with the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm.

[5] St. Jarre used the pen name Michael Hawke because he didn't want to be typecast by that type of fiction.

[3] His novel Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle, published on November 6, 2020, is a character piece about a New Hampshirite divorcé and the unusual people he meets in his new apartment building.

In August 2023, his most-recent book was Paris, California, a novel about when community displacement "goes completely off the rails.