Jeff Vande Zande is an American writer who is best known for his novel called ''American Poet'' which won him the ''Stuart and Vernice Gross Literature Award''. He is also a poet and an editor of the Driftwood Review with two of his poems being nominated twice for the

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

in 1999. His poems and stories have appeared in such magazines as

College English ''College English'' is an official publication of the American National Council of Teachers of English and is aimed at college-level teachers and scholars of English. The peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on a range of topics related to the ...

Passages North ''Passages North'' is an American literary magazine published by Northern Michigan University. Essays that have appeared in ''Passages North'' have been recognized in the anthology, ''The Best American Essays'', on numerous occasions.Michigan Jour ...

and

Whistling Shade ''Whistling Shade'' is a literary journal based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 2001, the journal features fiction, poetry, memoir and essays on literary topics. Whistling Shade is semi-annual, and the print issue is distributed freely in cafes, ...

. He currently teaches fiction writing and film at Delta College in Michigan.

Bibliography

Emergency Stopping & Other Stories
Into the Desperate Country
Landscape with Fragmented Figures
Threatened Species - A Novella and Five Stories
American Poet
Detroit Muscle
The Neighborhood Division - Stories
Rules of Order

References

American male poets Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century births {{US-poet-stub