Jeff Gundy

Jeffrey Gene Gundy (born 1952 Flanagan, Illinois) is an award-winning American poet of Mennonite descent based in Ohio. Gundy has written five works of poetry and was awarded the Ohio Poet of the Year in 2015. He teaches at Bluffton College. He debuted with Flatlands in 1995. His subsequent work include Somewhere Near Defiance, Abandoned Homeland, Spoken among the Trees, Rhapsody with Dark Matter and Deerflies. He is also known as an important contributor to Mennonite literary criticism.