Jeff Gundy was born in 1952 on a farm near Flanagan, Illinois, and grew up among Mennonites, corn, soybeans, and chickens in the prairie country that remains his psychic home. In 1975 he graduated from Goshen College with a degree in English, and did masters work in creative writing and a doctorate in American literature at Indiana University in Bloomington. After teaching for four years at Hesston College in Kansas, since 1984 he has been at Bluffton University, where he is Professor of English and former chair of the English/Language department. Among his books are four chapbooks (including the recent Greatest Hits 1986-2003 from Pudding House Press), four full collections of poems—Deerflies (Word-Tech Editions, 2004) Rhapsody with Dark Matter (Bottom Dog Press, 2000), Inquiries (Bottom Dog, 1992) and Flatlands (CSU Poetry Center, 1995) and two books of creative nonfiction—A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (Illinois, 1996) and Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (SUNY, 2003). His poems and essays have appeared in literary, scholarly, and religious magazines including The Sun, The Mennonite, Witness, Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, Mennonite Life, Creative Nonfiction, Image, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Conrad Grebel Review, and Mennonot. His work has been anthologized in A Capella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry, Food Poems, Modern Poems of Ohio, Illinois Voices, and several volumes in the yearly series What Mennonites Are Thinking. He has served on the faculty of the Antioch Writers Workshop, the Language of Nature workshop, and led numerous other writing workshops and seminars. Since 1992 he has written a series of essay-reviews of current nonfiction and poetry books for The Georgia Review, including an extended review of five books by Mennonite authors which appeared in 2004. Other honors and awards include five Ohio Arts Council fellowships, seven Pushcart Prize nominations, and two C. Henry Smith Peace Lectureships. He has been married to Marlyce (Martens) Gundy since 1973, and they are members of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton. They have three sons: Nathan, Ben, and Joel. Gundy’s hobbies include playing guitar, jogging, and soccer. Walker in the Fog orders:
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