Jeff Parker (born January 3, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel Ovenman was published in 2007 by the book division of the literary journal Tin House. Parker received praise from within the literary community for his hypertext story A Long Wild Smile which has appeared in numerous online journals.
Parker grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and received a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida. He attended the prestigious creative writing program at Syracuse University where he studied with such writers as George Saunders and Arthur Flowers. He graduated with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 1999. He currently serves as a faculty member at the University of Toronto.
2004 Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (as co-editor). Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1-56478-356-1
2004 Life & Limb: Skateboarders Writer from the Deep End (novel excerpt). Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1-932360-28-X
2007 Ovenman (novel) Portland, OR: Tin House Books. ISBN 978-09776989-2-9
2009 Rasskazy: New Fiction From a New Russia (as co-editor) Portland, OR: Tin House Books. ISBN 978-0-9820539-0-4
2010 "The Taste of Penny"