Jeff Fearnside is the author of two full-length books and two chapbooks, most recently "Ships in the Desert" (SFWP, 2022), winner of several post-publication awards, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Other awards for his writing include a Grand Prize in the Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Program, the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize from the National League of American Pen Women, and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship.

His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review, Story, The Sun, and Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2016). Fearnside was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan for two years and lived and worked in Central Asia for four years in all. He has taught writing and literature in Kazakhstan and at various institutions in the U.S.: Washington State University, Western Kentucky University, Prescott College, Oregon State University and OSU-Cascades. More info at jeff-fearnside.com