[1958-2014] Born in Singapore in 1958, and of British origin, Underwood came to Nova Scotia with his family in 1973 at the age of fifteen, and graduated from East Pictou Rural High School in 1975. He attended St. Francis Xavier University, and earned his diploma in journalism from Holland College of Applied Arts and Technology in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1979. He worked on a number of regional newspapers, including the Charlottetown Guardian-Patriot, the New Glasgow Evening News, the Truro Daily News, the Timmins (Ontario) Daily Press; and as editor and publisher of both the Springhill-Parrsboro Record and the Enfield Weekly Press before joining the Halifax Daily News as a senior copy editor and editorial writer.
He began Pennydreadful Publishing in 2010. Jay’s obituary.
