Steinfeld, J.J.
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About J.J.:
Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives hidden away on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press, 1987) and Word Burials (Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink, 2009), nine short story collections — The Apostate’ s Tattoo (Ragweed Press, 1983), Forms of Captivity and Escape (Thistledown Press, 1988), Unmapped Dreams (Crossed Keys Publishing, 1989), The Miraculous Hand and Other Stories (Ragweed Press, 1991), Dancing at the Club Holocaust (Ragweed Press, 1993), Disturbing Identities (Ekstasis Editions, 1997), Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (Gaspereau Press, 1999), Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Gaspereau Press, 2000), Would You Hide Me? (Gaspereau Press, 2003) —and two poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press, 2006) and Misshapenness (Ekstasis Editions, 2009), along with two short-fiction chapbooks by Mercutio Press, Curiosity to Satisfy and Fear to Placate (2003) and Not a Second More, Not a Second Less (2005), and two poetry chapbooks, Existence Is a Hoax, a Woman in Fishnet Stockings Told Me When I Was Twenty (Cubicle Press, 2003) and Where War Finds You (HMS Press. 2008). Over 200 of his short stories and nearly 400 of his poems have appeared in anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over 40 of his one-act and full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States, including the full-length plays Acting Violently, The Franz Kafka Therapy Session, and The Golden Age of Monsters, and the one-act plays Godot’s Leafless Tree, The Waiting Ends, The Entrance-or-Not Barroom, No End in Sight, Flowers for the Vases, The Word-Lover, Laugh for Sanity, A Murderous Art, Back to Back, Freesias in Whiskey, The Heirloom: An Evidence Play, and God’s Work. He was the 2003 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island.
