Jeffrey Gustavson was born in northernmost Appalachia and has lived in Maine, Massachusetts, California, Minnesota, Texas, and New York. A recipient of an N.E.A. grant, which he used for a residency at the Montana Artists Refuge, he is the author of Nervous Forces (Alef) and has published poems and fiction in Agni, Bomb, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, Poetry, Grand Street, The Brooklyn Rail, The Fiddlehead, Epiphany, and other journals.
