Jeff Gundy's five earlier books of poems include Spoken among the Trees (winner of the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award),Deerflies, and Rhapsody with Dark Matter. His fourth prose book isSongs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace(2013). A former Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salzburg, he teaches at Bluffton University in Ohio, and put 1,500 miles on his flat-bar road bike in its first year.
Somewhere Near Defiance is his first book with Anhinga Press.