J.J. Steinfeld

Poet, fiction writer, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-two books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (1987) and Word Burials (2009), thirteen short story collections—The Apostate's Tattoo (1983), Forms of Captivity and Escape (1988), Unmapped Dreams (1989), The Miraculous Hand and Other Stories (1991), Dancing at the Club Holocaust (1993), Disturbing Identities (1997), Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (1999), Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (2000), Would You Hide Me? (2003), A Glass Shard and Memory (2010), Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell (2015), An Unauthorized Biography of Being (2016), and Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (2019)—and seven poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices (2006), Misshapenness (2009), Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds (2014), Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (2017), A Visit to the Kafka Café (2018), Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement (2020), and Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential (2021).

Books by J.J. Steinfeld

Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential

Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement

Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles

A Visit to the Kafka Café

Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be

An Unauthorized Biography of Being

Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell

Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds

Misshapenness

Would You Hide Me?

Atlantica

Anton Chekhov was Never in Charlottetown

Should the Word Hell be Capitalized?

Disturbing Identities