Jeff Lodge is the author of the novel Where This Lake Is (White Pine Press, 1997). His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in New South, Makeout Creek, Persona, Pleiades, Squib, and other publications. Lodge has published numerous book reviews for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Style Weekly. He is a founding and contributing editor of Blackbird, and is co-editor of Diode Poetry Journal. Lodge is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.