Background
Jeff Lodge was born on November 19, 1952, in Decatur, Illinois, the United States to Robert Russell and June Lee (maiden name, Bracken; later surname, Glasco) Lodge.
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Jeff Lodge studied at the University of Arizona and became a Bachelor of Arts in 1992.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Jeff Lodge attended Virginia Commonwealth University and became a Master of Fine Arts in 1995.
Jeff Lodge was born on November 19, 1952, in Decatur, Illinois, the United States to Robert Russell and June Lee (maiden name, Bracken; later surname, Glasco) Lodge.
Jeff Lodge studied at the University of Arizona and became a Bachelor of Arts in 1992. He then attended Virginia Commonwealth University and became a Master of Fine Arts in 1995.
Jeff Lodge joined the University College faculty in 2009. Prior to coming to the University College, he served as an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar from 2006–2009 and as graduate programs coordinator of the VCU Department of English from 1996–2006. He has taught writing and literature as adjunct faculty at the University of Richmond and John Tyler Community College in Chesterfield, Virginia, and has taught a course titled “Behind the Scenes at the Valentine Museum” for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.
Lodge is the author of the novel Where This Lake Is (White Pine Press, 1997) and co-editor of Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry (Ithaca Press, 2011). He is also one of the founding editors of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts and is co-editor of the online literary journal diode. He has contributed over sixty book reviews to the Richmond Times-Dispatch and has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in several literary periodicals. He has also presented work at international conferences in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.
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1997Lodge considers himself a left liberal.
Lodge married Carol Peckham on April 25, 1981. Their marriage ended in July 1986. He then married Tamara Gay Carter on February 2, 1990. He has a son named Justin.