Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt

Author's Bio

Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt writes and teaches in Lancaster, PA. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Southern Humanities Review, Columbia Review, Louisville Review, and Adirondack Review. Recently named as a finalist for The Fulton Prize for Short Fiction, he has been a featured author at the Lancaster Book Festival and the Greater Reading Literary Festival, and has been a writer-in-residence at Ledig House International Writer’s Colony, The Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, and Artcroft Center for Arts and Humanities.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

Food and Other Enemies: Stories of Consuming Desire (Essex Press, 2000)

Journals:

City Primeval, Columbia Review, Demos, Dog River Review, Farmer's Market, Full Circle, Ginosko Literary Journal, Louisville Review, Owen Wister Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Southern Humanities Review, The Adirondack Review, Verdad Magazine

Prizes:

Finalist-Fulton Prize for Short Fiction

Personal Favorites

Favorite Books:

Jayber Crow, Too Much Happiness, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Moby Dick

Favorite Authors:

Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, John Updike, Katherine Anne Porter

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Listing last updated: September 19, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Tacoma, WA

Raised in:

Langhorne, PA