Lieutenant Commander Jeb S. Livingood,
USCG(R), is an intelligence analyst for Atlantic Area’s Alien Migration Interdiction Operations Section.
He is also a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Virginia. Jeb S. Livingood holds
to BAs, and MS and an MFA. He has edited five books (Best New Poets 2005, 2006 and 2007; Root, Stem and
Branch: Homegrown Terrorism; and, Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life) and produced one anthology (Best New
American Voices, 2001)
According to the book description
of Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life, “Author of thirty-two books and editor
or coeditor of nineteen others, George Garrett earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees at Princeton and recently retired
from the University of Virginia after a forty-year teaching career. Among his honors and awards are the Rome Prize of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller
Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the T. S. Eliot Award of the Ingersoll Foundation, the Aiken Taylor Award
for Modern American Poetry, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.”
