Jeffrey Feingold

Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Jeffrey M. Feingold is an award-winning writer of fiction in Boston. His debut short story collection The Black Hole Pastrami won a National Indie Excellence Award, a Pinnacle Achievement Award, was finalist for the Eyelands Book Awards, finalist for the International Book Awards, and was selected as a Readers’ Favorite Five Stars book. His second story collection There Is No Death in Finding Nemo won a PenCraft award, an Indie Reader Discovery award, and was a finalist for the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, the Eyelands Book Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the International Book Awards, and the Santa Fe Writers Project Awards. Jeffrey's third short story collection, A Fine Madness & Other Stories, was published in late 2024.

 

Jeffrey’s stories have been nominated for the Pen America Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, the Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Short Stories; shortlisted for the Exeter Story Prize in England; and winner of London’s Superlative literary journal annual story prize.

 

Jeffrey’s work appears in magazines, such as the international Intrepid Times, and in The Bark (a national magazine with readership over 250,000). Jeffrey’s work has also been published in anthologies, and by numerous literary reviews and journals, including The Pinch, Maudlin House, Meat for Tea, Wilderness House Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. Jeffrey's stories about family, about the tension between heritage versus assimilation, and about love, loss, regret, and forgiveness, reveal a sense of absurdity tempered by a love of people and their quirky ways.

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
Coneflower Cafe
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Jewish Literary Journal
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Past Ten
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The RavensPerch
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Prizes won: 
  • The Black Hole Pastrami
    • Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards (for short story collection, 2023)
    • Winner, the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (for short story anthology, 2023)
    • Five-star rating from Readers’ Favorite (2023)
    • Finalist, International Book Awards
    • Finalist, Eyelands Book Awards (under pre-publication title, Everything Lost and Loved, 2022)
    • Top Pick in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards (for short story anthology)
    • Finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards (for short story anthology)
    • Finalist, American Book Fest Best Book Awards, 2024)
  • There Is No Death in Finding Nemo
    •  Winner, the PenCraft “Best Book” Award (for short story anthology, Fall 2023)
    •  Winner, Indie Reader Discovery Awards (2023)
    •  Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards (for short story collection, 2023)
    •  Finalist, The Wishing Shelf Book Awards (2024)
    •  Finalist, Eyelands Book Awards (2024)
    •  Longlisted, Santa Fe Writers Project Award (2024)
    •  Named an “Indie Reader Approved” book (2023)
    •  Five-star rating from Readers’ Favorite (2023)
    •  Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards (2023)
    •  Finalist, International Book Awards
    •  Top Pick in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards (for short story anthology)
    •  Finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards (for short story anthology)
    •  Finalist, American Book Fest Best Book Awards, 20224)
  • A Fine Madness
    •  Winner, the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (for short story anthology, 2024)

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Chekhov Nikolay Gogol D.H. Lawrence Katherine Anne Porter Bernard Malamud Isaac Singer James Baldwin
What I'm reading now: 
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Dec 20, 2024