About

David Axelrod is the author of ten collections of poetry, mostly recently, Skiing with Dostoyevsky: New & Selected Poems, published in spring 2024 by Lynx House Press. He is also the author of two collections of nonfiction; most recently, The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence (Oregon State University Press, 2019).

He teaches letterpress printing on a 1935 Hacker Test Press at the University of Montana, where he founded Bear Scratch Press.

His poems and essays appear in many journals, among them: About Place, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, Kenyon Review, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, and Verse Daily, among others.

He taught at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande from 1988 to 2020, as well as at the Ludwigsburg Educational University in Baden-Würrtemburg, Germany.

Along with his spouse and colleague, Jodi Varon, he founded the award-winning basalt: a journal of fine and literary arts. They also are co-founders of EOU’s low residency Masters Program in Creative Writing, as well as the Wilderness, Ecology and Community program, affiliated with the MFA.

He makes his home outside Missoula, Montana, where he is restoring a former gravel pit and tends a small native plants nursery.