Career
He served two terms as president of the California State Poetry Society. His poem "Challengers" was read by Taylor Wang from the orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in 1985 and is on record at the National Archives Building. He authored three books of poetry: I Sleep With Strangers, Gilgamesh, and Sifted Ashes.
Fulbeck was born in New York City and raised in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
He attended Tusculum College in Tennessee on a New Jersey State Scholarship. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Navy and was stationed as a fighter pilot in the South Pacific.
After the end of World World War II, he worked as a newspaper and magazine editor and a freelance writer