JEFF PARKER is the author of the novel Ovenman and the short story collection The Taste of Penny. From 2000 to 2008 he was the program director for the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and he co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States. He has taught at the University of Toronto and currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
