Jeffrey Alfier is a three-time Pushcart nominee, and a 2010 nominee for the UK’s Forward Prize for Poetry. In 2012, he was nominated for a Breadloaf scholarship. He holds an MA in Humanities from California State University at Dominguez Hills. Having served 27 years in the Air Force, he is a member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). He’s also worked as a busboy, janitor, 7-11 clerk, and security guard at a mental hospital. In addition to journals cited herein, his credits include Birmingham Poetry Review, Crannog (Ireland), James Dickey Review, Georgetown Review, Kestrel, New York Quarterly, and Poetry South (UK), Poetry Ireland Review, South Carolina Review, and Tulane Review. His chapbooks are Strangers Within the Gate (2005), Offloading the Wounded (2009), Before the Troubadour Exits (2010), Bluesman’s Daughter (2010), The Torch Singer (2011), The Gathering Light at San Cataldo (2012), and The City Without Her (2012). His first full-length book of poems, The Wolf Yearling, is forthcoming in 2013 from Silver Birch Press. He is founder and co-editor of San Pedro River Review.

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)

The City Without Her (Kindred Spirit Press, 2012), The Gathering Light at San Cataldo (Kindred Spirit Press, 2012), Strangers within The Gate (The Moon Publishing and Printing, 2005)

Alembic, Birmingham Poetry Review, Black Rock & Sage, Blue Collar Review, Blue Earth Review, Blueline, Borderlands, Boxcar Poetry Review, Brilliant Corners, Broad River Review, Broken Bridge Review, Caesura, Cairn, Cape Rock, Clare Literary Journal, Concho River Review, Connecticut Review, Connecticut River Review, Copper Nickel, Cottonwood Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crannóg, CutThroat, Dislocate, Echolocation, Eclipse, Eleven Eleven, Ellipsis, Emerson Review, Emrys Journal, Flint Hills Review, Fox Cry Review, Front Range Review, Georgetown Review, Gihon River Review, Heartland Review, Hobo Camp Review, Homestead Review, Illya's Honey, Inscape, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Iodine Poetry Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, JAMA, James Dickey Review, Jelly Bucket, Kerf, Kestrel, Lake Effect, Limestone, Mangrove Review, Midwestern Gothic, Moonshot Magazine, Mosaic Art & Literary Journal, New Madrid, Noctua Review, Northridge Review, Other Poetry, Owen Wister Review, Pacific Review, Penumbra, Permafrost, Pinyon, Plain Spoke, Platte Valley Review, Poetry South, Post Road, Raleigh Review, RE:AL, Red River Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed Magazine, RHINO, River Oak Review, Rockhurst Review, Ruminate, Saint Ann's Review, Sakura Review, Sandy River Review, Santa Clara Review, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Slipstream, South Carolina Review, Southwestern American Literature, Spectrum, Sport Literate, Sugar House Review, Suisun Valley Review, Texas Review, The Binnacle, The Fourth River, The Mayo Review, The New York Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Three Coyotes, Tulane Review, Utah English Journal, War, Literature & the Arts, Watershed, Welter, Whiskey Island Magazine, Willow Review, Xavier Review