08/25/2016 – Jeffrey Schultz (Poetry MFA ’03) is one of five winners of The National Poetry Series’ 2016 Open Competition. Congratulations, Jeff!

Civil Twilight
by Jeffrey Schultz
Chosen by David St. John for Ecco

For more information, visit The National Poetry Series.

Jeff is a two-time winner of The National Poetry Series (2016 and 2013). He is a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Pepperdine/Seaver College in Malibu, California, where he served as Interim Director of Creative Writing (2014-2015).

Jeff’s first book of poems, What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other, was released in 2014 (University of Georgia Press).