Jeff Burk (born June 6, 1984, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a Portland-based author and editor of bizarro and horror fiction. He studied political science, sociology, and history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before moving into Portland's bizarro publishing scene, where he spent a decade at Eraserhead Press, from 2009 to 2019.
He is best known for the cult novel Shatnerquake (Eraserhead Press, 2009), in which the actor William Shatner is pulled into a convention reality and hunted by every character he has ever played. Across his Eraserhead years he wrote Super Giant Monster Time! (2010), the collection Cripple Wolf (2011), and Shatnerquest (2013); edited the quarterly Magazine of Bizarro Fiction; and ran the press's cult-horror imprint, Deadite Press, as head editor, overseeing more than 100 titles before departing in 2019. His 2018 collection The Very Ineffective Haunted House and Other Strange and Stupid Stories, published by Clash Books, was nominated for the Splatterpunk Award for Best Collection.
His connection to the Journal of Experimental Fiction is a single issue. Burk co-edited Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37 (2010) with founder Eckhard Gerdes, a 106-page anthology that brought the Portland bizarro circle, including Mykle Hansen, Gina Ranalli, Steve Aylett, Kevin L. Donihe, Cameron Pierce, and Forrest Armstrong, into JEF's frame for one volume.
Start with Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37, the issue where the bizarro scene and JEF met.