On October 19th, I’ll be reading from the new edition of Loving Mountains, Loving Men at Union Ave Books in Knoxville, Tennessee. I’ll be joined by the wonderful Julia Watts, with whom I coedited LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia. Here’s the event link: https://www.unionavebooks.com/event/author-event-jeff-mann
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Second Edition of Loving Mountains, Loving Men Released
On August 8, 2023, I turned 64, and the second edition of Loving Mountains Loving Men was released by Ohio University Press. The book’s a collection of memoir and poetry that first appeared in 2005. The second edition includes a new cover, updated acknowledgments, an afterword, and a few new
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The Sagas of Mann, my Viking-themed erotic fiction collection, will be released in September 2023, and once more the folks at Lethe Press have come up with a great cover!
Read moreMythology Poems
This summer, I’m working on a series of poems based on world mythology, most particularly the Greek, Norse, and Celtic pantheons. The research is certainly fun. I’m reading the 75th anniversary edition of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, a book I first read as a child. Other books I’m using as inspiration
Read moreViking Collection in the Works
Now that classes are winding down at Virginia Tech, I’m putting together a new book, a collection of fiction set in the Viking Age. It’ll be composed of previously published works: three short stories and one novella. “Mead-Sweet” was included in Wings: Subversive Gay Angel Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory.
Read moreSecond Edition of Loving Mountains, Loving Men
I’m delighted to report that Ohio University Press will be releasing a second edition of my 2005 memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men. I’ve written a new afterword and updated the acknowledgments, and the press has come up with a wonderful new cover. The book’s due out on my 64th birthday:
Read moreENGL 3534/Literature and the Environment
The Fall 2022 semester at Virginia Tech has come to a close, and I’m more than ready for a break. That said, the semester was one of the most interesting I’ve ever experienced, albeit also one of the busiest. I taught a course entirely new to me–ENGL 3534/Literature and the
Read moreVirginia Poetry Anthology
I have several poems included in this handsome poetry anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IX: Virginia! The book’s due out November 15th. Many thanks to the editors and to Texas Review Press!
Read morePoem in Impossible Archetype 12
Thanks to editor Mark Ward for including one of my poems, “Uruz 3,” in the 12th issue of Impossible Archetype! In the summer of 2020, I wrote a series of poems based on the Elder Futhark, an old Norse alphabet, three poems for each of the twenty-four letters. Uruz is
Read moreShort Story in Still
Many thanks to guest fiction editor Julia Watts, who recently published my short story, “Indian Summer,” in the Summer 2022 issue of Still: The Journal. The story serves as a sequel to my novel Cub. Be sure to check out her great introduction!
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