Jeff Fearnside

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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 along the Great Silk Road and twice bicycled throughout Great Britain.

I’m the author of the essay collection Ships in the Desert (SFWP, 2022) and two short-story collections: A Husband and Wife Are One Satan (Orison Books, 2021), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize, and Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016), winner of an Eyelands International Book Award.

I’ve taught writing and literature for many years and conducted numerous workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad. I currently live in the Pacific Northwest and am at work on various writing projects. I’m available for workshops, readings, and related areas. Please contact me through my website listed above.

Education:

Eastern Washington University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:

CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018)

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

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

Book:

Ships in the Desert (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)

Journals:

Etude

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

New Madrid

Ontologica

Postcard Poems and Prose

Potomac Review

Rock & Sling

Silk Road

Fiction

Anthologies:

Out of Many: Multiplicity and Divisions in America Today (Cat in the Sun Press, 2018)

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)

Chapbook:

A Husband and Wife Are One Satan (Orison Books, 2021)

Journals:

About Place Journal

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

North Dakota Quarterly

Potomac Review

SFWP: The Journal

Valparaiso Fiction Review

Poetry

Anthologies:

Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press, 2020)

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:

About Place Journal

ArLiJo

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters

Blue Earth Review

Bluestem Magazine

Camas

Catamaran

Cirque

Clackamas Literary Review

Yemassee

Elohi Gadugi Journal

Fourth River

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Kudzu House Quarterly

Los Angeles Review

Midwest Quarterly

Naugatuck River Review

Panhandler

Paris Review

Permafrost

Poeming Pigeon

Porter Gulch Review

protestpoems.org

Qarrtsiluni

riverSedge

Soul-Lit

Spoon River Poetry Review

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature

Valparaiso Poetry Review

Prizes won:

1st Place, Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Short Story Collection, 2022; 1st Place, Eyelands International Book Award, in the category of published short stories, 2020 (judged by Patricia Marchesi, Andriana Minou, and Gregory Papadoyiannis); 1st Place, Orison Chapbook Prize, 2020 (judged by Luke Hankins); 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; 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: Oct 28, 2022