Jeb Livingood is an American

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, and academic.

Life

He graduated from

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

American University The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

, and

, with an M.F.A. in 2000. He exhibited at the 1999

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Conference in Albany, New York. He teaches at the

, where he is faculty advisor for ''Meridian''. He is the series editor for the ''

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'' anthology. He is a commander in the

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Reserve.

Awards

* 2002 A.E. Coppard Prize for Long Fiction * 2001 Finalist Jack Dyer Fiction Prize

Works

* “To Us,” CreamCity Review, Spring 2004. * "Motion Sickness," The Texas Review, Fall/Winter 2002. * "Signal Codes" White House Coffee Store Press, November 2002. ASIN: B000CBS0O0 Chapbook * "Charles Baxter: Fiction Resisting the Corilineal," The Hollins Critic, October 2000. * "From the Pilot to the Bombardier: An Anecdote on Literary Fame," The Texas Review, Spring/Summer 2001. * "Oh Albany, My Love," C-ville, March 21, 2000. * "Overnight Sensation, 1974," Writer's Eye, 1999. * "The Summer Sea," Yemassee, Spring/Summer 1998.

Anthologies

* Charles Baxter, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, ed (2001). Best new American voices 2001. Harcourt. .

Editor

* George P. Garrett, Jeb Livingood, ed (2005). Best New Poets, 2005. Samovar Press. . * Eric Pankey, Jeb Livingood, ed (2006). Best New Poets, 2006. Samovar Press. . *

Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U ...

, Jeb Livingood, ed (2007). Best New Poets, 2007. Samovar Press. . *

Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...

, Jeb Livingood, ed (2008). Best New Poets, 2008: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. Samovar Press. . *

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attended ...

, Jeb Livingood, ed (2009). Best New Poets, 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. Samovar Press. . * George Garrett, ''Going to see the elephant: pieces of a writing life'', Jeb Livingood ed, Texas Review Press, 2002,

Essay

"Revenge of the Introverts"
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Volume 2, Number 4, April 1, 1995

References

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