JEFF KASS

Availability: 4 hours/month starting immediately.

Jeff Kass is a teacher of English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI and at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti MI and also works as the Poet-in-Residence for Ann Arbor Public Schools. A graduate of Yale University with a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, he has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence for Ann Arbor District employees for his teaching and organizing of poetry programs; and was also named the 1995-96 California Education Placement Association’s New Teacher of the Year for Northern California Secondary Schools. In April of 2007, he was recognized by the American Civil Liberties Union as Michigan’s Wendy Joyrich Teacher of the Year and was also selected the 2007 Michigan Youth Art’s Festival’s Artist-in-Residence.