Cowboy Poet
Jeff Streeby holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose recent work has appeared in Alehouse; Flashquake; Rattle; Simply Haiku, Glass, Naugatuck River Review, Oak Bend Review, Astropoetica and others. In 2005 and 2006, he was a presenter at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer Institute in Monasterevin, Ireland.
Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, an historic terminal market for western beef, where he worked for Waitt Cattle Company while he attended Morningside College. Later he went to Florida and Minnesota as a groom and stableman for dressage and A-Circuit hunter-jumper trainers. He has been licensed on Thoroughbred race tracks of Nebraska and Montana as both a groom and assistant trainer. After several years of teaching in El Paso, Texas, doing some daywork on ranches near Sierra Blanca, and boarding horses at his place in New Mexico, Jeff and his family moved to Great Falls, Montana, where he taught English at Great Falls High School. He was editor/compiler of the From Texas To Montana series of books published by Dallywelter Press. Jeff and his family now reside in Yucaipa, California. He teaches English at Perris High School in Perris, California.
He has pursued graduate work at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Wyoming, the University of Montana, Antioch University, the University of California at Riverside (Extension) and other institutions. He was a Fellow in the West Texas Writing Project. He received his MFA degree from New England College in 2008. His performances as a cowboy poet incorporate his expertise as an educator, his love of history and his passion for the English language. He is adept at formulating curriculum based programs that trace the history, poetry and stories of the American West from distant shores to the American West of the 1800's. Jeff has also appeared in the Public Television (PBS) Series Cowboy Corral.
Jeff is an active member of Western Writers of America. His work has been published in Western Horseman, Cowboy Gazette, Rope Burns and Countryline magazines. In addition to his frequent publication in mainstream literary journals, his works have been included in the anthologies The Big Roundup, a project of Cowboypoetry.com, and in Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion, third in a series of definitive cowboy poetry anthologies published by Gibbs Smith. You can read more of his poetry at http://www. wildbuckaroo.com .
Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, an historic terminal market for western beef, where he worked for Waitt Cattle Company while he attended Morningside College. Later he went to Florida and Minnesota as a groom and stableman for dressage and A-Circuit hunter-jumper trainers. He has been licensed on Thoroughbred race tracks of Nebraska and Montana as both a groom and assistant trainer. After several years of teaching in El Paso, Texas, doing some daywork on ranches near Sierra Blanca, and boarding horses at his place in New Mexico, Jeff and his family moved to Great Falls, Montana, where he taught English at Great Falls High School. He was editor/compiler of the From Texas To Montana series of books published by Dallywelter Press. Jeff and his family now reside in Yucaipa, California. He teaches English at Perris High School in Perris, California.
He has pursued graduate work at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Wyoming, the University of Montana, Antioch University, the University of California at Riverside (Extension) and other institutions. He was a Fellow in the West Texas Writing Project. He received his MFA degree from New England College in 2008. His performances as a cowboy poet incorporate his expertise as an educator, his love of history and his passion for the English language. He is adept at formulating curriculum based programs that trace the history, poetry and stories of the American West from distant shores to the American West of the 1800's. Jeff has also appeared in the Public Television (PBS) Series Cowboy Corral.
Jeff is an active member of Western Writers of America. His work has been published in Western Horseman, Cowboy Gazette, Rope Burns and Countryline magazines. In addition to his frequent publication in mainstream literary journals, his works have been included in the anthologies The Big Roundup, a project of Cowboypoetry.com, and in Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion, third in a series of definitive cowboy poetry anthologies published by Gibbs Smith. You can read more of his poetry at http://www. wildbuckaroo.com .
