| Honorée Fanonne
Jeffers, Asso. Professor of English, is the author of two books of
poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University, 2000),
which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize for Poetry and was the
finalist for the 2001 Paterson Poetry, and Outlandish Blues,
forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2003. She has won the
2002 Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry, and awards from the Barbara
Deming Memorial Fund and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Prof. Jeffers' work
recently has appeared in Black Issues Book Review, Black
Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Liter
ature, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo,
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from
the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review,
The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review,
Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Roll
Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature
and Art (Third World, 2002), and These Hands I Know: Writing
About the African American Family (Sarabande 2002). She is at work
on a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction. |
