Jeffrey Greene

Professor Greene has taught creative writing courses at The American University of Paris since 2007. Before becoming a fulltime resident in France to join his wife and family, Greene was a tenured associate professor at the University of New Haven and taught briefly in the Goddard Master of Fine Arts program. He received degrees from Goddard College (BA), The Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA), and the University of Houston (PhD). Greene is the author of five collections of poems, a memoir, three personalized nature books, and a cross-genre book in collaboration with painter Ralph Petty. A fourth nature book, 7 Music Forests, is forthcoming. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Rinehart Fund and Humanities Texas, and he received the Randall Jarrell Award, the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, and Samuel French Morse Prize. His writing has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, Agni Review, and the American Scholar.

While Greene honed his writing skills as a poet, he discovered the pleasures of writing imaginative prose, both fiction and creative nonfiction. He writes and publishes in three genres, giving him flexibility as a creative writing teacher to provide cross-genre workshops and lead advanced creative writing projects in courses, directed studies, and theses.