Jeff Jones
Research/Focus Areas
  • Creative Writing: fiction and nonfiction
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • English 392: Intermediate Fiction Writing
  • English 393: Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
  • English 292: Creative Writing: Fiction
  • English 293: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
  • English 258:Literature of Western Civilization II
  • English 208:Personal and Exploratory Writing
  • English 207: Persuasive Writing

Jeff Jones

College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
English Department
Lecturer

Home Town
Moscow, Idaho

With UI Since
2005
Office: Brink Hall 115
Phone: (208) 885-6156
Email: jeffj@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102

  • M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Idaho, Creative Nonfiction, 2005
  • M.A. International Studies, University of Washington, Russian studies, Soviet and Russian cinema, 1997
  • B.A.s with distinction in English and Anthropology, University of Colorado at Denver, minors in literature and theater, 1995

Born in Denver, Colorado, Jeff lived in Seattle and Pullman, Washington, before moving to Moscow in 2004. His nonfiction honors include a Pushcart prize and the Lamar York prize.  His short stories have won the A. David Schwartz, Wabash, and Hackney prizes, along with special mentions in the Pushcart, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and Best American Horror anthologies.  His poetry chapbook, Stratus Opacus, was released from Main Street Rag Publishing in 2008.  He has received an Idaho Commission on the Arts grant and was a teaching fellow in fiction at the 2009 Wesleyan Writers Conference.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • Children of Cain – Pushcart Prize XXXII (2008).
  • Dad Joiner’s Dream – The Oxford American, Best of the South III issue, July 2008.
  • Scooter’s Story – Alaska Quarterly Review 26.1
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, An Ass Whuppin’ – Arts & Letters 19, Spring 2008.
  • The Night the Winter Palace Was Taken – Cream City Review 32.1, Spring 2008.
  • Snowmelt on Ice (reprinted) – Zahir Tales 16, Summer 2008.
  • Smiles, Frowns, and Upside-Downs – Blue Mesa Review 21, Summer 2008.
  • Tribute – Night Train (online), 2007.
  • An American Education – Gulf Coast 19.2, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • The Mysterious Intensity of the Heart – Redivider 4.1, Fall 2006.
  • The Source of My Troubles – Sycamore Review 18.2, Summer/Fall 2006.

AWARDS & HONORS
  • Pushcart Prize, Children of Cain, essay, reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXII, 2008.
  • The Night the Winter Palace Was Taken – 1st Place ($1000), A. David Schwartz Prize in Fiction, Cream City Review, 2008. 
  • The Source of My Troubles – Special Mention, short story, Pushcart Prize XXXII, 2008.
  • Snowmelt on Ice, Recommended listing, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, October 2008. 
  • Agony of the Forgotten – Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007.
  • The Mysterious Intensity of the Heart – Recommended Reading List, Best American Fantasy, 2007. 
  • The Runciter Project – 1st Runner-up, Burnside Review’s Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Glen David Gold, 2007.
  • The Source of My Troubles – 1st Place ($1000), Sycamore Review Wabash Prize for Fiction, selected by Janet Burroway, 2006.

OUTREACH
Coordinator, Humanities Outreach Project, 2007-08
This program, under the direction of Distinguished Humanities Professor Gary Williams, brought rural high school students to the University of Idaho for cultural events and to connect with undergraduate humanities mentors during the academic year 2007-08. http://www.class.uidaho.edu/jgw/Humanities%20Projects%202007-08.htm