Jeffrey Amos is a writer, essayist, editor, educator, and sometimes a musician (some times more, some times less). Once upon a time, he worked as a documentary television producer with credits on PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow, Hoarders, and Who Do You Think You Are? He left television in 2015 to return to school, earning an MFA in fiction at Purdue University and then a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
His work often focuses on the social construction of place and its intersection with the environment, family and family history, spirituality, and multi-species connection. Fascinated by interwoven histories, his work is often deeply influenced by archival research—expansively interpreted to include not only public records and special collections but the natural world, considering the inflection of environmental and social histories that make up place and the narratives that can be discovered there.
Jeffrey Amos 