Jeff Kersh

Jeff Kersh has an MA from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he was lucky to have studied with Angela Ball and D.C. Berry, and a PhD in Poetics and 20th Century American Literature from Oklahoma State University, where he was fortunate to study with Mark Cox and Gordon Weaver. This gradual development has produced publication in a variety of print and online publications, including Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online, Reality Times, pith, )ism(, and others. In addition to writing and holding down a "real job," Kersh is a semi-professional musician and minor world music scholar; his first nonfiction book, Basic Hand Drumming, is due out in 2004 from Windstorm Creative. He currently lives and works in the Jackson, MS area.