Jarek Steele

Jarek Steele writes creative nonfiction and poetry with themes of family, queerness, gender, nature, and politics. His work has appeared in HuffPost, Fourth Genre, Electric Literature, AWP's Writer's Chronicle, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. One essay, “Nesting” will appear in Best American Essays, 2025. Two essays, “Man in the Mirror” and “Nesting” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, Missouri, and c