Jeff Oaks

Jeff Oaks is the author of three chapbooks, Shift (Seven Kitchen Press, 2010), The Moon of Books (Ultima Obscura Press, 2000), and The Unknown Country (State Street Press, 1992).  He has published poems in literary magazines including Field, Court Green, Zocalo Public Square, Poemeleon, Ploughshares, and Bloom.  His essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction and My Diva: 65 Gay Men Write about the Women Who Inspire Them.  He’s the recipient of three fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and an Individual Artist fellowship from the Pittsburgh Foundation.  In 2008, he won the Tina and David Bellet  Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. 

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

                Introduction to Poetry Writing

                Poetry Workshop

                The Writer’s Journal

                Autobiography and the Creative Impulse

Other Duties & Service

Assistant Director, Writing Program

Advisor, Three Rivers Review (Undergraduate Literary Magazine)