Jeff Burt

Jeff Burt grew up in rural and small-town Wisconsin, with a boyhood dominated by fields and water, Lake Superior, Lake Mason, the Fox River and its tributaries, Long Lake, and the Mississippi. He has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, sculpted by redwood and hardwood forests, fires, droughts, earthquakes, and the Monterey Bay.  He and his wife live in Santa Cruz County where his three children grew and were released into the wilds of other places.

He has also contributed to Heartwood, Williwaw Journal, Red Wolf Journal, and Rat’s Ass Review. He won the Cold Mountain Review 2017 Poetry Prize, the 2017 Heart Poetry Prize, and the Sheila-Na-Gig Winter 2020 Poetry Prize.

He has a poetry book out January, 2026, from Sheila-Na-Gig, The Root Endures. He has a digital chapbook available from Red Wolf Editions, and a chapbook about his father, A Filament Drawn So Thin, from Red Bird Chapbooks.