Parker, Jeff
Jeff Parker is the author of the novel Ovenman (Tin House Books) and with William Powhida the collection of art and stories The Back of the Line (DECODE). A short story collection, The Taste of Penny (Dzanc Books), and a nonfiction book, Where Bears Roam the Streets (Harper Collins), are forthcoming in 2010. With Mikhail Iossel he co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction From a New Russia (Tin House Books, 2009) and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive, 2004). He is currently the Acting Director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.

Non-Fiction