Jeffrey Levine is the founder, Artistic Director and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award-winning literary press dedicated to discovering and championing essential voices at the margins, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, and international writers in translation. A poet and essayist, he is the author of several acclaimed collections and the recipient of 27 Pushcart Prize nominations. In addition to his editorial and publishing work—where he annually shepherds 18 books into print and oversees a national distribution partnership with the University of Chicago Press—Levine teaches poetry seminars, consults with nonprofit literary organizations, and is widely recognized for his exacting editorial guidance, his devotion to emerging writers, and his ongoing exploration of lyric craft, attention, and moral imagination. He reviews regularly for Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, LARB, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other venues.
