Jeffrey D. Tucker

Jeffrey D. Tucker received degrees in English from Brigham Young University (BA, 2003; MA, 2006) and a doctorate in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied creative writing. Tucker recently published his first full-length collection of poetry, Kill February (Sage Hill, 2015), which was chosen as the winner of the Powder Horn Prize for Poetry, a national literary contest. He currently teaches in the Department of English at Brigham Young University; he has also taught in the Church Educational System, serving as an Institute of Religion teacher in Virginia.