jeff kass

Jeff Kass teaches Tenth Grade English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI. He’s the award-winning author of Knuckleheads, Independent Publishers Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011, as well as three full-length poetry collections including My Beautiful Hook-nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Teacher/Pizza Guy, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book and runner-up for Midwest Book Award. He is the winner of the 2024 Toledo Museum of Art Ekphrastic Poetry Contest and a featured poetry instructor with the Michigan Learning Channel. He’s taught poetry classes and workshops to thousands of students, and is a recipient of a prestigious 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship for writers who teach in public schools. His newest poetry collection, True Believer, from Dzanc Books, consists of poems that spin around and through Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.