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Jeffrey Alfier

Author's Bio

Jeffrey Alfier, Torrance, California, is co-editor of San Pedro River Review. He holds an MA in Humanities from CSU-Dominguez Hills. He is an Air Force veteran with 27 years of officer and enlisted service. He has also served as a functional analyst, and once taught history as an adjunct faculty member with City College of Chicago’s European Division. His publication credits include Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Earth Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cape Rock, Concho River Review, Cutthroat, Georgetown Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Northridge Review, Pacific Review, Pearl Magazine, Permafrost, Red Cedar Review, Pacific Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Santa Clara Review, Texas Review, War Literature and the Arts, and Xavier Review. His chapbooks are Strangers Within the Gate (2005) and Offloading the Wounded (2009), published by The Moon Publishing and Printing.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
The Wolf Yearling (Pecan Grove Press, 2012), Bluesman's Daughter (Kindred Spirit Press, 2011), The Torch Singer (Kindred Spirit Press, 2011), Before the Troubadour Exits (Kindred Spirit Press, 2010), Offloading the Wounded (The Moon Publishing & Printing, 2007)
Chapbooks:
Strangers within The Gate (The Moon Publishing and Printing, 2005)
Journals:
Alembic, Bellowing Ark, Birmingham Poetry Review, Black Rock & Sage, Blue Collar Review, Blue Earth Review, Blue Unicorn, Border Senses, Borderlands, Broken Bridge Review, Caesura, Cape Rock, Concho River Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutThroat, Dislocate, Distillery, Eclipse, Eleven Eleven, Flint Hills Review, Freshwater, Front Range Review, Georgetown Review, Heartland Review, Homestead Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Iodine Poetry Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, JAMA, Kerf, Mangrove Review, Mountain Gazette, Northridge Review, Pacific Review, Paper Street, Pebble Lake Review, Penumbra, Permafrost, Pilgrimage, Pinyon, Rainbow Curve, Rattle, RE:AL, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed Magazine, River Oak Review, Ruminate, Saint Ann's Review, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Santa Clara Review, Sendero, Sierra Nevada Review, Spot Literary Magazine, Stolen Island Review, Streetlight Magazine (a journal of art and literature), Texas Review, War, Literature & the Arts, Watershed, Wolf Moon Press Journal, Xavier Review
Prizes:
Pushcart nominee for 2009. Honorable Mention for the 2006 Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize; first place awards from the Redrock Writer's Guild of Utah and the Arizona State Poetry Society.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
What Work IS by Philip Levine, Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski, Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Favorite Books:
The Real West Marginal Way by Richard Hugo, all of Cormac McCarthy's works, works by poets listed under 'Favorite Authors'
Favorite Authors:
Richard Hugo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Walt McDonald, Larry D. Thomas, Jo MacDougall, Anne Marie Macari, Art Homer, Charles Bukowski, Kevin Young, Honoree Jeffers, Patricia Smith, James Welch, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, Bruce Weigl, Wendell Berry, WD Ehrhart, James Wright, Franz Wright, Rodney Jones, Henry Miller, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Terrance Hayes, Cornelius Eady, Hunter Thompson, James Crumley.

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: March 2, 2012

More Information

Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Identifies as:
Italian American
Prefers to work with:
Adults
Born in:
Dearborn, MI
Raised in:
Hampton, VA

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