Jeff Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College. He was educated at Austin Peay State University and the University of Alabama, where he twice received the Academy of American Poets Award. His poems have been nominated several times for the Pushcart and appear in recent and forthcoming issues of Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The New Republic, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Rattapallax, New Orleans Review, The Laurel Review and others. His chapbook, Deep in the Shallows, recently appeared from GreenTower Press.

About Deep in the Shallows:

"With Deep in the Shallows, Jeff Hardin's lyric trumpets the Romantic moment into our most salient and sensible present while transcending subject with meditation. As was the case for Rimbaud, these poems are the explosion which lights up Hardin's abyss, and yet with all the light he sheds, the work cherishes the dark corners, the seldom explored recesses of verse. Most, the poet's work predicates the poetic moment, the instant we understand the spell, language transformed."
—Ruth Ellen Kocher