Douglas Goetsch

Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State, 2004), winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, Nameless Boy (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press) and four chapbooks. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, the Donald Murray Prize, the Paumanok Prize, and numerous other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Best American Poetry, online at Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR.

Doug grew up in Northport, Long Island, was educated at Wesleyan University, New York University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He taught for 21 years in the New York City Public School system. He's also taught writing at conferences and in university programs throughout the United States, currently serving on the core faculty at the Red Earth low residency MFA program, and is founding editor of Jane Street Press.

Greenwich Village Workshop & One-on-one Study: To work with Doug, in group workshops or individually, contact him at doug[at]janestreet.org.