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.

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)

Strangers within The Gate (The Moon Publishing and Printing, 2005)

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