Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He earned his M.F.A. from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), a Finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021) won the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. Jefferson’s work has received several acknowledgments and awards, including an American Rescue Plan/Maine Project Grant, a Maine Arts Commission grant, and three Maine Literary Awards. His plays have been produced throughout New England. Jefferson serves the New England poetry community in a variety of capacities including as a member of the steering committee for the Belfast Poetry Festival, as Interviews Editor for The Café Review, as Prose Poetry Editor for Hole in the Head Review, and as a member of the board of Millay House Rockland. He has taught writing as a long-time adjunct faculty member at Southern Maine Community College, as a visiting professor at Bates College, and many times through the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
