John P. (Jack) Kristofco

Over the last thirty years, John P. (Jack) Kristofco has published over seven hundred poems and seventy short stories in about two hundred different publications, including: Folio, Rattle, Bryant Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Fourth River, Stand, The MacGuffin,  Sierra Nevada Review, BlueLine, Slant, Pinyon, POEM, Snowy Egret, Freshwater Review, and Clackamas Literary Review. He has published four poetry collections, most recently After the Harvest (Orchard Street, 2025).  He has also published a collection of short stories, The Alex Chronicles (2021). Currently in development is a second novel, Two Years (a story about a university, its English faculty, and some of its students over a period of eight semesters) and a second collection of short stories, Incidents and Accidents.  Jack was the recipient of the 2002 Chaffin Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times. In 2011, he retired from a distinguished, forty-year career as a professor and university administrator (the last fourteen of those years as Dean of Wayne College at the University of Akron). He lives with his wife, Kathy, east of Cleveland where he pursues his passions for writing, music, photography, and watching three children and nine grandchildren take their swings at changing the world.