Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous publications and earned him such acclaim as two Lambda Literary Award, the Pauline Réage Novel Award, the John Preston Short Fiction Award, and the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame. His work was included in the first Official Literary Map of West Virginia, unveiled at the West Virginia Book Festival. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
