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Jeff Oaks is an American poet and essayist. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Director of the Writing Program. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including ''Mistakes with Strangers'' (Seven Kitchens Press, 2014), Shift (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010), The Moon of Books (Ultima Obscura Press, 2000), and The Unknown Country (State Street Press, 1992). He is also a recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships and have published poems in ''Assaracus, Field, Bloom, Mid-American Review, Zocalo Public Square,'' and ''Superstition Review''. His poem “Saint Wrench” was selected for ''Best New Poets 2012'' by Matthew Dickman. His essays have appeared in ''At Length, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review Online'', and in the anthologies ''Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction'' and ''My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them''. Born and raised in western upstate New York State, Oaks received his MFA in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He has subsequently taught at the University of Pittsburgh, first as a Teaching Assistant, then as Part-Time Faculty, then as a full-time, non-tenure stream Lecturer. From 1999 to 2011, he managed the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, bringing from 6 to 13 well-known writers each year to campus for free readings and talks. In 2011 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and became the Assistant Director of the Writing Program. He specializes in teaching creative writing, but he has also taught in Pitt’s Composition and Literature programs. For many years he worked as a writer-in-residence for the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, partnering with local secondary school teachers in summer workshops as well as inventing stand alone visits to local schools. He has taught classes at Western Penitentiary, at the Ellis School, and in the community through the Carnegie Museum School and the Carnegie Library. In 2008, he received the Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award for his teaching at Pitt. ==Books== * ''The Unknown Country'', poetry (Brockport, New York: State Street Press, 1994). * ''The Moon of Books'', poetry (Lincoln, Nebraska: Ultima Obscura Press, 2000). * ''Shift'', poetry (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). * ''Mistakes with Strangers'', poetry (Lewisburg, PA: Seven Kitchens Press, 2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Oaks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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