Jeff Tigchelaar is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and stay-at-home dad whose writing has appeared in journals including North American Review, Pleiades, and The Laurel Review, and anthologies such as Verse Daily, Best New Poets, and New Poetry from the Midwest. His poetry garnered a fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and his first book, Certain Streets at an Uncertain Hour, published in 2015 by Washburn University's Woodley Press, won the 2016 Kansas Authors Club Nelson Poetry Book Award. Jeff currently works at Cabell County Public Library in Huntington, West Virginia, where he resides with his wife and two children.

Publications include: CutBank, Handsome, Fugue, LIT, The Offending Adam, Phoebe, Heavy Feather Review, Sand, Garbanzo, The Southeast Review, Best New Poets 2011, Court Green, North American Review, burntdistrict, Hobart, Prole, Grist, Gertrude, Rhino, Tar River Poetry, Sport Literate, Coal City Review, Flyway, Fjords, Juked, Controlled Burn, I-70 Review, Aethlon, el Paper, Thrush Poetry Journal, The 22, Verse Daily, Atlanta Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, West Wind Review, decomP.

Poem "One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds" was microreviewed on cellpoems.org.