Jeff Gundy

Jeff Gundy is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Bluffton University in Ohio. His twelve earlier books include Without a Plea and Abandoned Homeland (both poems), Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace (criticism), and A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (creative nonfiction). His poems and essays appear in Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Image, Cincinnati Review, Terrain, and many other journals. He served as...See more

Jeff Gundy is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Bluffton University in Ohio. His twelve earlier books include Without a Plea and Abandoned Homeland (both poems), Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace (criticism), and A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (creative nonfiction). His poems and essays appear in Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Image, Cincinnati Review, Terrain, and many other journals. He served as Poet in Residence and held a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Salzburg in 2008, and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2015 for Somewhere Near Defiance. He regularly bikes the flat blacktops of northwest Ohio, often with his wife Marlyce on their bright yellow tandem, and writes and performs his own songs on YouTube and SoundCloud. He and Marlyce have three grown sons and six fast-growing grandsons. See less