Jeff Kass

Jeff Kass teaches Tenth Grade English and Creative Writing in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s the award-winning author of Knuckleheads, 2011’s Independent Publishers Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011 as well as two full-length poetry collections, My Beautiful Hook-nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Teacher/Pizza Guy, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book. He has taught poetry classes and workshops to thousands of students and is a recipient of a prestigious 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship for writers who teach in public schools. His newest poetry collection True Believer is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in March, 2025.