Jeffrey UtzingerJeffrey Utzinger spent the first ten years of his life in the woods of Northern Kentucky before his family moved to the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas. After graduating from high school, he attended college in Austin where he met his future wife. He eaned an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University while working maintenance at a chemical plant in South Austin. While he and his wife have rarely lived within the Austin city limits, they've never strayed far from the area as they've moved from town to town, job to job. Jeffrey was a college professor, a corporate trainer, and then spent several ill-fated years selling insurance. Eventually he returned to academia, earned a PhD in American Literature from Texas A&M University, and currently serves as a dean and English professor at Concordia University Texas. His creative and scholarly work has appeared in numerous literary and academic journals. Jeffrey and his wife live in Lockhart, Texas where they raised their three children who are in the process of finding their own place in the world. Jeffrey also keeps chickens, a duck, cats and dogs, and a few thousand bees. This is his first published collection of essays. Read More Read Less