Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman (born 1950) is an American poet and educator. He is known for his lyrical narrative verse rooted in autobiographical experience and for his later fabulist prose poetry and flash fiction which interweave the fantastical and the ordinary. In a review of Friedman's collection ''Floating Tales'' (2017), poet and critic Walter Bargen wrote that the author "assembles fantastic tales only to disassemble them, then reassemble them into even more impossible worlds, and yet the reader will find her-or himself believing in their possibilities and often laughing along the way." Friedman is the author of nine collections of poetry and prose, which include ''Black Threads'' (2007), ''Working in Flour'' (2011), ''Pretenders'' (2014), ''The Marksman'' (2020), and the microfiction collection, ''The House of Grana Padano'' (2022), co-written with Meg Pokrass. He lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire with his wife, painter Colleen Randall. Provided by Wikipedia