Jeffrey Wade Gibbs

Jeffrey Wade Gibbs was raised in rural Florida, shuttling back and forth between his mother's people in Lakeland and his father's in the northern lake region. At 21, he left the South to teach English in Tokyo, and since then, he has made his way around the world, working as a teacher and writer in Japan, India, and now Turkey, where he lives with his wife and son. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. His short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Chaotic Merge, Fiction Southeast, The Sand Journal, Hyperallergic, The Boston Review, and Big Truths Little Fictions, among others.