Curriculum Vita
Jeffrey L. Newberry, PhD

Education

  • PhD


    University of Georgia, Athens, 2010 (Creative Writing, 20th Century American and British literatures) 

  • MA


    University of West Florida, Pensacola, 2000 (Creative Writing, Poetry)

  • BA


    University of West Florida, Pensacola, 1998 (English and Creative Writing)

Academic Appointments

  • 2011-Present


    Professor of English, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

  • 2008-2011


    Associate Professor of English, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

  • 2005-2008


    Assistant Professor of English, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

  • 2002-2005


    Instructor of English, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College 

  • 1999-2002


    Adjunct Instructor, University of West Florida

Fellowships and Awards

  • Author's Prize for "Name," awarded by Mary:  A Journal of New Writing (2016)

  • Named first-ever “Poet in Residence” at Abraham Baldwin College (2014)

  • Finalist for the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, awarded by Crab Orchard Review (August 2013)

  • Finalist for the Argos Poetry Prize, awarded by the Country Dog Review (May 2013)

  • Nominated by fellow faculty for Donaldson Award for Excellence in Teaching Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (2013-2016)

  • A Visible Sign nominated for the Conference on Christianity and Literature’s Book of the Year (2009)

  • Original poem “Deep, Like Blood” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2008)

  • Tennessee Williams Scholarship, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Summer 2008

  • ABAC Pacesetter Award (Nominated and chosen by students for outstanding institutional service), 2013, 2010

  • Recipient of a Faculty Development in Georgia (FDIG) Grant (2005-2007)

  • Scholarship, West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative, Westchester, Pennsylvania, Spring 2005

  • Named “Governor’s Teaching Fellow” by the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, Athens, Summer 2004

Selected Publications

  • Novels


    A Stairway to the Sea, Pulpwood Press, 2016
    In the Pines, Pulpwood Press (forthcoming)

  • Poetry Collections


    Brackish, Aldrich Press, 2012

  • Chapbooks

     
    A Visible Sign, Finishing Line Press, 2008

  • Anthologies (Editor)


    The Gulf Stream:  Poems of the Gulf Coast.  Jeff Newberry and Brent House, editors. Snake Nation Press, 2013.

Poetry:

"The Bottom-Fisher's Prayer," The MacGuffin (forthcoming)
“Body Speaks,” Columbia Review (forthcoming)
“Letter after Orlando, after Sandy Hook,” Scarlet River Review
“I was a Preteen Werewolf with Bad Teeth,” Communion
“Three Epistolary Poems” (Collaboration with Justin Evans), Peacock Journal, Fall 2016
“Slight Return,” Atticus Review, November 2016
“A Widow in Early Spring,” One, Spring 2016
“Fourteen Footnotes for an Autobiography,” Southeast Review, Spring 2015
 “How to Talk About the Dead,” “Spring’s Return,” and “About Disappointment,” Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2014
“The Cartographer’s Song,” Bayou, Spring 2014
“A Description of the Illusion,” Redactions:  Poetry & Poetics, Winter 2014
“Late October:,” Birmingham Poetry Review, Winter 2014
 “A Map of North Florida” and “Highway 98 East, Port St. Joe, Florida,”
Country Dog Review, Spring 2013
“In Which I Explain What I Meant to Say” and “Yours Truly, Sincerely, Apalachee Review, 63, Spring 2013
 “Four Days Before the End of the World,” Evening Will Come, February 2013
“All My Possible Selves from Alternate Universes Meet in a Bar for a Drink,” Sweet:  A Literary Confection, Fall 2012
“To Come of Age in a Mill Town,” Chattahoochee Review, Fall 2012
“With Benjamin n Greensboro, Alabama,” Waccamaw:  A Journal of Contemporary Literature (Spring 2012)

Prose:

“Name,” Mary:  A Journal of New Writing, Fall 2016
“The Paper Man’s Son,” Snake Nation Review, Fall 2016
“Paul’s Boutique, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beastie Boys,” storySouth, Fall 2013
“What Our Fathers Know,” Atticus Review, Summer 2012


“Name,” Mary:  A Journal of New Writing, Fall 2016
“The Paper Man’s Son,” Snake Nation Review, Fall 2016
“Paul’s Boutique, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beastie Boys,” storySouth, Fall 2013
“What Our Fathers Know,” Atticus Review, Summer 2012

Selected Conference Presentations and Workshops

  • “Gulf States Noir,” panel chair, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Faulkner State College, Fairhope, Alabama, March 11, 2017

  • “Southern Noir and the Gothic,” panelist, Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, Alabama, April 23, 2017
     

  • “Mapmaking and Poetry:  Charting Your Place,” Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Young Writers Conference, Tifton, Georgia, May 30, 2015

  • “The Cartographer’s Sleight of Hand:  Maps, Poetry, and the Paths We Chart,” Georgia Poetry Society Meeting, Athens, April 25, 2015

  • “Getting the Words Down:  Writing and Routine,” Gulf Coast Writers Conference, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, Florida, September 20, 2014

  • “Creative Writing, Ecology, and Ecocriticism:  Possibilities and Practices,” Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, University of South Alabama, Fairhope, April 6, 2013


Professional Service

  • Faculty, Sanibel Island Writers Workshop, 2014

  • Faculty, Gulf Coast Writers Conference, 2013-present

  • President, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2011-2014

  • Vice President, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2010-2011