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Jed Myers
Jed Myers was born in Philadelphia in 1952. He studied poetry at Tufts University, and went on, after training in medicine and psychiatry, to practice and teach psychotherapy in Seattle, where he and his wife raised three children. He kept writing poems, but did not seek publication until after the events of September 11, 2001. Since that time, his work has been widely published.
Myers is author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), the chapbook The Nameless (Finishing Line Press), and the limited-edition handmade chapbook Between Dream and Flesh (forthcoming, Egress Studio Press). Honors include Southern Indiana Review's Editors' Award, the Literal Latte Poetry Award, Blue Lyra Review's Longish Poem Award, New Southerner's James Baker Hall Memorial Prize, and, in the UK, the McLellan Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod International Journal, The Greensboro Review, Crab Creek Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Briar Cliff Review, and elsewhere. He is Poetry Editor for the journal Bracken.
Website: http://www.jedmyers.com/
Winning Entry: The Road West
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2016, Honorable Mention, Tom Howard