Jeff Vande Zande is an American writer who is best known for his novel called American Poet which won him the Stuart and Vernice Gross Literature Award. He is also a poet and an editor of the Driftwood Review[1] with two of his poems being nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize in 1999. His poems and stories have appeared in such magazines as College English, Passages North and Whistling Shade.[2] He currently teaches fiction writing and film at Delta College in Michigan.