Jeff Francis, 33, is a Colorado native who currently makes his home in the one-square-mile municipality of Glendale.

He mostly writes literary reviews for Cairn, but occasionally has branched out to reporting and even fiction-writing. His day job is reporter for a string of weekly newspapers in Jefferson County, where he has won two first-place awards from the Colorado Press Association for his writing.

When he is not working, he enjoys reading, spending time with his girlfriend, obsessively thinking of witty things to say in potential conversations with the appearance of spontaneity, and drinking Frost-Brewed Coors Light. Jeff usually avoids traffic citations with the excuse, “But officer, I’m a Taurus. You know, like the BULL! Bulls don’t stop for blinking lights or take the time to read signs!”