Jeff Mann

Jeff Mann, Associate Professor

_{Department of English

210 Shanks Hall

181 Turner St. NW

Blacksburg, VA 24061

jemann2@vt.edu

Website: jeffmannauthor.com}

Jeff Mann has published six books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine, On the Tongue, Ash, A Romantic Mann, Rebels, and Redneck Bouquet; three collections of essays, Edge, Binding the God, and Endangered Species; a book of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; six novels, Fog, Purgatory, Cub, Salvation, Country, and Insatiable; and three volumes of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, Desire and Devour, and Consent. With Julia Watts, he co-edited LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia. The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards and four National Leather Association-International literary awards, he teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

Gay literature
Appalachian literature
Icelandic sagas
Norse mythology
American Civil War

Education

M.A. in English, West Virginia University, 1984.
B.A. in English, West Virginia University, 1981.
B.S.R. in Nature Interpretation, 1981.

Professional Roles

Member, Associated Writing Programs
Member, Appalachian Studies Association

Awards and Honors

Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award for “In Defense of Erotica,” 2018.
Pauline Réage Novel Award for Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War, 2015.
Lambda Literary Award for Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War, 2015.
Out in Print’s “Best of 2014” for Cub.
Out in Print’s “Best 13 Reads for 2013” for A Romantic Mann.
Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame, 2013.
Out in Print’s “Best of 2012” for Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War, 2012.
Rainbow Award, First Place in the Best Gay Historical Category for Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War, 2012.
Pauline Réage Novel Award for Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal, 2012.
Jerome Niles Dean’s Faculty Research Award, 2011-12.
Winner, Established Poets’ Contest, Metrorail Public Art Project, 2011.
John Preston Short Fiction Award for “Kidnapping Chris,” 2009.
Lambda Literary Award for A History of Barbed Wire, 2007.
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Certificate of Teaching Excellence, 2007.

Publications

Books

Redneck Bouquet: Gay Poems from Appalachia (poems). Amherst, Massachusetts: Lethe Press, 2020. (107 pp.)
Endangered Species: A Surly Bear in the Bible Belt (essays). Amherst, Massachusetts: Lethe Press, 2019. (354 pp.)
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia (anthology co-edited with Julia Watts). Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press, 2019. (288 pp.)
Insatiable (novel). Amherst, Massachusetts: Unzipped Books/Lethe Press, 2017. (267 pp.)
Consent (short fiction). Maple Shade, New Jersey: Unzipped Books/Lethe Press, 2017. (280 pp.)
Country (novel). Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, 2016. (418 pp.)
Rebels (poems). Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, 2015. (172 pp.)
Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War (novel). Maple Shade, NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2014. (290 pp.)
Cub (novel). Maple Shade, NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2014. (226 pp.)
A Romantic Mann (poems). Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013. (134 pp.)
Desire and Devour: Stories of Blood and Sweat (short fiction). Maple Shade, NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2012. (202 pp.)
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War (novel). Maple Shade, NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2012. (286 pp.)
Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal (novel). Maple Shade NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2011. (228 pp.)
Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology (poetry). Bar Harbor, ME: Rebel Satori Press, 2011. (136 pp.)
Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South (personal essays). New London, CN: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press, 2010. (232 pp.)
A History of Barbed Wire (short fiction). San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006. (208 pp.)
On the Tongue (poetry). Arlington, VA: Gival Press, 2006. (86 pp.)
Loving Mountains, Loving Men (memoir and poetry). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. (218 pp.)
Bones Washed with Wine (poems). Arlington, VA: Gival Press, 2003. (77 pp.)
Edge (personal essays). Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, 2003. (183 pp.)
Flint Shards from Sussex (poems). Arlington, VA: Gival Press, 2000. (33 pp.)
Mountain Fireflies (poems). Yosemite, CA: Poetic Matrix Press, 2000. (25 pp.)
Bliss (poems). Baltimore: BrickHouse Books, 1998. (40 pp.)