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Jeff Fearnside [1]

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Corvallis, OR

Oregon US

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 four full-length books and chapbooks: Ships in the Desert (SFWP, 2022), winner of several post-publication awards, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award; A Husband and Wife Are One Satan (Orison Books, 2021), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize; Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016), winner of an Eyelands International Book Award; and Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land (Standing Rock Cultural Arts, 2011), winner of the Standing Rock Cultural Arts Open Poetry Chapbook Competition.

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Adalet Ağaoğlu, Ray Bradbury, Kate Chopin, William Goyen, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Flannery O’Connor, Cynthia Ozick, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf

Twitter/X:

@JeffFearnside

Website:

https://www.jeff-fearnside.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

1st Place, Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award in Prose (judged by Phillip McMath), 2024; 1st Place, Eyelands International Book Award, Published Memoir (judged by Patricia Marchesi), 2023; 1st Place, Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards, Travel/Nature, 2023; 1st Place, Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award, Adult Nonfiction Essays, 2023; 1st Place, Eric Hoffer Book Award, Nonfiction—Culture, 2023; 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)

Education:

Eastern Washington University

Prefers to work with:

Any