Jeffrey Bean

Jeffrey Bean is Professor of English/Creative Writing at Central Michigan University. He is the author of two chapbooks and the poetry collections Diminished Fifth and Woman Putting on Pearls, winner of the 2016 Red Mountain Prize for Poetry. His poems have been featured in the New Poetry from the Midwest anthologies and online at Poets.org and Verse Daily. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, South Dakota Review, and Poet Lore, among other journals. www.jeffreybeanpoet.com

Jeffrey Bean’s chapbook Ella’s Plan was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Chapbook Contest, hosted by The Poets Corner and Maine Media Workshops + College.