Jeff Stautz

Jeff is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and is the Fiction Editor of PRISM international, Western Canada's oldest literary magazine.

His work has appeared most recently in The First Line, and is forthcoming in Event and the Machine of Death anthology. His play "Blood Ties" was workshopped and performed in March 2003 at the Seaver Theatre in Claremont, California, and was selected as a winner of the "Shorts!" One-Act Play Competition.

He was the recipient of a 2009 BC Arts Council Scholarship in Creative Writing. In 2005, he was awarded a Fishtrap Fellowship, and he is a former writer in residence at the Montana Artists' Refuge.

He's also the Product Manager of Mobile Platforms for HootSuite.com, the professional Twitter client and social media dashboard.

Publications and Awards

• Event, "Asymptote" (Forthcoming)
• Machine of Death anthology, "Loss of Blood" (Forthcoming)
• Awarded BC Arts Council Fellowship (Sept 2009)
• The First Line, "Transgressions" (Spring 2007)
• The First Line, "The Split Up" (Winter 2006)
• Fishtrap Writing Fellowship (July 2005)
• Writer-in-residence at Montana Artists Refuge (June 2005)
• "Blood Ties" winner of "Shorts!" One-Act Play Competition (Feb 2003)
• Passwords, "Don't Hold Your Breath" (Spring 2002)
• Passwords, "Cranes" (Fall 2001)

Other Things I Do

• Fiction Editor of PRISM International, Western Canada's oldest literary magazine
• MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia
• New Shoots Creative Writing mentor at Killarney Secondary
• Product Manager of Mobile Platforms for HootSuite.com, the Social Media Dashboard
• Homebrewer and beer geek
• Runner of marathons, half-marathons, and other longish races