Originally from Southern California, Jeffery Conway has lived in New York City since 1989. He received an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 1991 where he studied with Allen Ginsberg.
Jeffery's poems have been included in many magazines, including The World, The Portable Lower East Side, B City, Brooklyn Review, Northridge Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The James White Review, No Roses Review, Good Foot, Painted Bride Quarterly, Courier, Nassau Weekly, MILK, Electronic Poetry Review, MiPo, Court Green, and The Literary Review.
His work can also be found in many anthologies, such as Eros in Boystown (Crown, 1996); Queer Dog (Cleis Press, 1997); Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry (Vehicule Press, 1998); The World in Us (St. Martin's Press, 2000); The Brink: Postmodern Poetry From 1965 to the Present (Yeti Books, 2003); Bend, Don't Shatter (Soft Skull Press, 2004); Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (2007, Soft Skull Press).
Books include Plush: Selected Poems of Sky Gilbert, Courtney McFarlane, Jeffery Conway, R.M. Vaughan, and David Trinidad (Coach House Press, 1995); two collaborations with Lynn Crosbie and David Trinidad, Chain Chain Chain (Ignition Press, 2000) and Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point Press, 2003).
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