Jeff Tigchelaar is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and stay-at-home dad whose writing has appeared in journals including New Ohio Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Pleiades, and The Laurel Review, and in anthologies such as Verse Daily, Best New Poets, and New Poetry from the Midwest. His poetry garnered a fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and his first book, Certain Streets at an Uncertain Hour, published in 2015 by Washburn University's Woodley Press, won the 2016 Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award. Jeff currently works at Cabell County Public Library in Huntington, West Virginia, where he resides with his wife and two children. In Huntington. Not at the library.
Awards / Accolades:
- Runner-up, 2019 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, as selected by Patricia Smith
- Finalist, 2018 Boom Chapbook Contest, Bateau Press
- Winner, Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award (2016)
- Winner, Langston Hughes Award for Creative Writing (2010)
- Individual Excellence Award (grant), Ohio Arts Council (2008)
- Runner-up, Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award (2015)
- Nominee, Kansas Book Award (2016)
- Three-time Pushcart Prize nominee
www.pw.org/content/jeff_tigchelaar
Awards / Accolades:
- Runner-up, 2019 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, as selected by Patricia Smith
- Finalist, 2018 Boom Chapbook Contest, Bateau Press
- Winner, Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award (2016)
- Winner, Langston Hughes Award for Creative Writing (2010)
- Individual Excellence Award (grant), Ohio Arts Council (2008)
- Runner-up, Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award (2015)
- Nominee, Kansas Book Award (2016)
- Three-time Pushcart Prize nominee
www.pw.org/content/jeff_tigchelaar