Jeff Fearnside

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Corvallis, OR

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Author's Bio

I’m an award-winning author and educator whose work in three genres—fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—focuses strongly on place, culture, and the natural environment. I have an especially deep interest in Central Asia, where I lived and worked for four years, and I’ve traveled widely across Asia and twice bicycled throughout Great Britain. I earned degrees in creative writing from Bowling Green State University (BFA) and Eastern Washington University (MFA). I’ve taught writing and literature for nearly two decades and conducted numerous workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad. I currently live with my wife (an ethnic Russian Kazakhstani) and two cats in Corvallis, Oregon, where I teach at Oregon State University and am at work on a novel. I’m available for workshops, readings, and related areas. Please contact me through my website listed above.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:

The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2012)

A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (Peace Corps, 2006)

Journals:

Etude

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

New Madrid

Rock & Sling

Fiction

Anthologies:

Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet (Press 53, 2014)

Scent of Cedars: Promising Writers of the Pacific Northwest (Russell Dean & Company, 2002)

Book:

Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016)

Journals:

Aethlon

Arroyo Literary Review

Bayou Magazine

Cantaraville

Controlled Burn

Crab Orchard Review

Eureka Literary Magazine

Fjords Review

Fourteen Hills

Homestead Review

Isotope

Lake Effect

Little Patuxent Review

Many Mountains Moving

Potomac Review

SFWP: The Journal

Poetry

Anthology:

Forest Under Story: A Decade of Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2016)

Chapbook:

Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land (Standing Rock Cultural Arts, 2011)

Journals:

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters

Blue Earth Review

Clackamas Literary Review

Elohi Gadugi Journal

Fourth River

Kudzu House Quarterly

Los Angeles Review

Permafrost

protestpoems.org

Qarrtsiluni

Prizes won:

Oregon Arts Commission 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship; Full Scholarship, The Sun 2013 Writing Retreat, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA (2013); Spring 2013 Andrews Forest Writers Residency, Oregon State University Andrews Experimental Forest; Peace Corps Writers 2012 Poetry Award; 1st Place, Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2010 Open Poetry Chapbook Competition; 1st Place, 2009 Mary Mackey Short Story Prize (sponsored/judged by Mary Mackey), National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill, San Francisco Bay Area Branch; Dorothy Norton Clay Fellowship, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Mount St. Francis, IN (2007); Bernheim Writer-in-Residence, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY (2006); Grand Prize, Santa Fe Writers Project 2005 Literary Awards Program (judged by Ayun Halliday); 1st Place, Many Mountains Moving 2005 Flash Fiction Contest (judged by Thaddeus Rutkowski)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Jan 25, 2016