"How to efficiently slit your wrists"
ca 1973, Alexandria VA

School

Raised in private school in northern Virginia, where he was instructed in proper toilet etiquette - along with Latin, Mandarin, French and the dissection of frogs - Jeffrey Hannan has been writing since the 8th grade, when a one-act play he self-published on a steno pad was promptly filed away in his record by the Master of the Upper School.

He has studied at Virginia Tech, Catholic University, San Francisco State, San Diego Mesa College, and San Diego City College. He eventually earned a BA in Literature/Writing (cum laude) from the University of California - San Diego, at which point he eschewed graduate school largely due to factors of fatigue and poverty, and to a lesser degree because of a poor understanding of politics.

Writing

A former book reviewer for the Gay and Lesbian Times, he has workshopped his writing with Rae Armantrout, Quincy Troupe, Bernard Cooper and others. HugoSF is his second novel. The first is in a safe deposit box; it will be mined of any useful material and then burned.

Paying the Rent

After fourteen-plus Fellini-esque years in its grip, Jeffrey Hannan dreams of fleeing the internet industry for the wilds of Puna, Hawai'i, to tend to his tea farm. He lives with his husband there and in San Francisco and occasionally writes under the moniker, A Gentle Iconoclast in Paradise.

He remains mildly bitter about having missed magna cum laude by a mere .025 but finds solace in pulling weeds and slumming at the beaches of fine hotels.