Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman is the author of nine collections of poems, prose poems, and microfiction, including The Marksman (2020), Pretenders (2014), and Working in Flour (2011) from Carnegie Mellon University Press and Floating Tales (2017) from Plume Editions/Madhat Press. His work has appeared in TheAmerican Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry International, TheAmerican Journal of Poetry, A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry (MadHat Press, 2019), The New Republic, and others. Lavender Ink/Dialogos published Friedman’s co-translation with Dzvinia Orlowsky of Memorials by Mieczyslaw Jastrun in August 2014. Singing Bone Press published Nati Zohar’s and Friedman’s book of translations Two Gardens: Modern Hebrew Poems of the Bible in 2016.

Friedman has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, two individual artist grants from the New Hampshire Arts Council, and other awards. Pelekinesis Press published Meg Pokrass’s and Friedman’s co-written collection of fabulist microfiction, The House of Grana Padano, in April 2022. Friedman lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, with the artist Colleen Randall and their dog, Ruby.