Jeff Ewing

Poet, Fiction Writer

Sacramento, CA
California US
Email: 
jeffrey.a.ewing@gmail.com
Website: 
www.jeffewing.com

Author's Bio

Jeff Ewing is the author of the short story collection "The Middle Ground", published by Into the Void Press, and the poetry collection "Wind Apples" from Terrapin Books. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Subtropics, Crazyhorse, ZYZZYVA, Sugar House Review, Willow Springs, South Carolina Review, Southwest Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Utne Reader, and Saint Ann's Review, among others. His one-act and full-length plays have been staged in New York and Los Angeles.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Book:
The Middle Ground (Into the Void Press, 2019)
Journals:
Anomaly Literary Journal
,
Atticus Review
,
Bartleby Snopes
,
Boiler Journal
,
Cold Mountain Review
,
Eclectica
,
Eleven Eleven
,
Into the Void
,
Juked
,
Laurel Review
,
New World Writing
,
Origins
,
Pif
,
SAND
,
SmokeLong Quarterly
,
South Carolina Review
,
Southwest Review
,
Star 82 Review
,
Storm Cellar
,
Crazyhorse

Poetry

Book:
Wind Apples (Terrapin Books, 2021)
Journals:
Arroyo Literary Review
,
Ascent
,
Atlanta Review
,
Barrow Street
,
Beloit Poetry Journal
,
Bridge Eight Literary Magazine
,
California Quarterly
,
Cape Rock
,
Catamaran Literary Reader
,
Chariton Review
,
Chattahoochee Review
,
Cimarron Review
,
Clockhouse
,
COG
,
Crab Creek Review
,
december
,
Dunes Review
,
Fjords Review
,
Harpur Palate
,
Homestead Review
,
Lake Effect
,
Main Street Rag
,
Natural Bridge
,
Pembroke Magazine
,
Penn Review
,
Saint Ann's Review
,
Spillway
,
Split Rock Review
,
Subtropics
,
Sugar House Review
,
The Monarch Review
,
The Timberline Review
,
Tule Review
,
Under a Warm Green Linden
,
Valparaiso Poetry Review
,
Willow Springs
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 
  • Pushcart Prize nominations
  • Best of the Web Nominations
  • Finalist, Catamaran Poetry Prize
  • Finalist, Barry Spacks Poetry Prize
  • Second Place, Atticus Review Flash Fiction Contest
  • Finalist, Split Rock Review Poetry Chapbook Contest
  • Semi-Finalist, American Short(er) Fiction Contest
  • Second Runner-Up, Epiphany Chapbook Contest
  • Winner, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award
  • Winner, FirstStage One-Act Play Competition

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Thomas Pynchon, Per Petterson, William Faulkner, Galway Kinnell, Wallace Stevens, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Louise Erdrich, Thomas Lux, Malcolm Lowry, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Louise Gluck, Alice Munro, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbery, John McPhee, Larry McMurtry

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, Norwegian
Born in: 
Gettysburg, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Sacramento, CA
California
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Last update: May 10, 2023