Faculty
Jeff Shotts
Visiting Instructor
M.F.A. Washington University, 2002
B.A. Macalester College, 1996
Email: shotts-at-graywolfpress.org
Jeffrey Shotts is currently Senior Editor at Graywolf Press, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He edits poetry, creative nonfiction, lyric essays, critical essays on literature, literary hybrids, and translations. Over the last eleven years, he has worked with many authors, including American writers Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Stephen Burt, Nick Flynn, Tess Gallagher, Dana Gioia, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Gregg, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Tony Hoagland, Fanny Howe, D.A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, and Vijay Seshadri, and international writers Kathleen Jamie, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Pura López-Colomé, Agi Mishol, Don Paterson, Tomas Tranströmer, and Saadi Youssef.
Shotts graduated from Macalester College with majors in Classics and English, and he earned his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he studied with poets Mary Jo Bang and Carl Phillips, among others. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Agni, The Georgia Review, The Journal, Rain Taxi Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere.
Shotts has lectured on poetry and publishing at writing programs across the country, including the College of Saint Benedict, Hamline University, the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, The Loft Literary Center, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota, the Richard Hugo House, and Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the editor of the poetry included in The Graywolf Silver Anthology (Graywolf Press, 1999).
Jeff grew up in central Kansas and now lives in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Areas of Study
- Publishing poetry, fiction, and critical and creative nonfiction
- Contemporary literature
- Creative writing, with an emphasis in poetry, lyric essay, and literary hybrids
- Prosody and craft of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction
Fall 2008 Courses
Spring 2008 Courses
Previous Macalester Courses
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