Jeffrey Hannan
Bio
Jeffrey Hannan is a writer and former book critic for the San Diego Gay & Lesbian Times. He earned a BA in Literature with an emphasis on Writing from the University of California - San Diego. While there he published various articles in local publications and also read and evaluated scripts for the New Play Discovery Program at The Old Globe Theatre.
After 11 years as an undergraduate, and finishing one unpublished novel and several stage plays, he opted to not pursue an MFA at his own peril: "I loved academia but I didn't want to be an academically trained writer. I wanted my voice and style of writing to reflect the world I was living in: my interactions, my perspectives. I knew it was a risk but it was the road I had to follow."
He has workshopped his personal narrative and fiction with Quincy Troupe, Bernard Cooper, and Rae Armantrout – among others – and has performed a number of invited readings over the years.
He has been working in the internet industry since shortly before the start of the Internet boom. It is that experience which provided the impetus for HugoSF, a recently-completed novel. Set on the terra infirma of a very contemporary northern California landscape, HugoSF is a bouyant yet cautionary tale about truth, work and economics. It spans seven years of a young man's life – Hugo Storm – from the Dickensian drudgery of his sales job in the IT industry, through the economic surge and collapse of the Internet bubble, to his personal and professional re-birth at the onset of the real estate boom.
Jeffrey Hannan was born in Washington, DC. He currently lives in San Francisco and Hawai'i, where he authors the blog A Gentle Iconoclast in Paradise, an exploration of the travails and subtle evolutions of a writer whose life is 50% urban and 50% off the grid.