Bio

Jeff Whitney the author of multiple chapbooks, including Sixteen Stories (Flume Press), Radio Silence (Black Lawrence Press), which was co-written with Philip Schaefer, and The Tree With Lights In It (Thrush Press). His debut full-length poetry collection has been a runner-up for the Donald Hall Prize from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems can be found in Adroit, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and Sixth Finch. He is a former poetry editor of CutBank, and currently reads for Black Lawrence Press. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana. He lives in Portland with his wife, the writer Hannah Withers.