Jeffrey Bean currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. From 2006-2008 he was the Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Field, Slate.com, Subtropics, Salt Hill, Willow Springs, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. His first collection, Diminished Fifth, was published in September 2009 by David Robert Books.