Bio
Jeff Friedman received his B.A. in English from Macalester College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa. He is the author of five collections of poetry: Working in Flour (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011) Black Threads (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007), Taking Down the Angel (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998) and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press-University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1986). His poems and translations have been published widely in national and international literary journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, Maggid, Ars-Interpres, Cardinal Points, New England Review, Margie, 5 AM, Agni Online, Natural Bridge, Ontario Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner and The New Republic.
He has won two individual artist grants from the New Hampshire State Arts Council, The Carnegie Mellon University Press Open Competition, The Editor’s Prize from The Missouri Review and the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize. He has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo.
Since 1994, he has taught at Keene State College, where he and poet William Doreski cofounded the Keene State Writers’ Conference. For seven years, he was a core faculty member in the M.F.A. Program in Poetry Writing at New England College. In 2003 he was the Distinguished Poet-In-Residence in the M.F.A. program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He also serves as a contributing editor to Natural Bridge literary journal. With Nati Zohar, he cotranslated the anthology Two Gardens: Modern Hebrew Poems of the Bible, which will be published by Wolfson Press.
In addition, he is completing a collection of mini stories, parables, and other prose pieces, some of which have been published in Night Train, 2River View, Cardinal Points, Quick Fiction, and Poetry International.
Jeff Friedman lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire with artist Colleen Randall and their dog Bekka.
