Bio

Jef is a native Texan who moved to Atlanta in 1996, because he wanted to know what it was like to live some­place where the ten o’clock news came on at eleven.  He works as a recruiter for a non-profit and as the store man­ager for Bound To Be Read Books in East Atlanta Vil­lage. He lives in Grant Park and has a dis­pro­por­tion­ate amount of friends named Jeff.  When he is not doing the book­store cat’s evil bid­ding, Jef enjoys dri­ving with the top down on his Miata and blast­ing ‘80s music from his humon­gous subwoofer.

Jef’s short fic­tion, essays, and poetry have been fea­tured on the BBC’s Get Writ­ing web­site and the online lit­er­ary mag­a­zine Clock­wise Cat, as well as win­ning sev­eral writ­ing con­tests.  He was also invited to pitch his screen­plays at The Per­fect Pitch con­test at the Atlanta Film Fes­ti­val in 2004 and 2006, where he described one of his scripts as “Home Alone meets Basic Instinct.”  Jef is a grad­u­ate of Orson Scott Card’s Lit­er­ary Boot Camp, and was a final­ist in the 2012 Erma Bombeck Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion.  He was a 2012 Lambda Lit­er­ary Foun­da­tion Fel­low. Rumors that he can unhinge his jaws and swal­low his food whole are true.