Jeffrey Wolf

I’m obsessed with writing that attempts to navigate memory and identity. As humans, we are always telling ourselves stories about what happened, why it happened, and how these events and actions reconcile with our sense of self. I’m drawn to quiet stories and small acts of perseverance, those moments that stack up year after year to become a life.

Jeffrey Wolf’s writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Prairie Schooner, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has been a finalist for the Third Coast Fiction Prize and the Arkansas International Emerging Writer’s Prize, and he has received a fellowship grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and artist residencies in Iceland, Sweden, and the Quad Cities. He is also the founder and host of the literary reading series An Inconvenient Hour, named a “Best of Chicago 2022” honoree by Chicago Magazine. He holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is currently shopping his debut manuscript.

I strive to help students’ writing succeed on its own terms, regardless of genre. That said, the strength of my expertise lies in lyrical prose and narrative movement divorced from traditional plot. I also strive to help students network and professionalize within the field of literary writing.

• “A Good Living,” Conjunctions, 2024.
• “Esther and Max,” Chicago Quarterly Review, 2024.
• “Yizkor Season,” Prairie Schooner, 2023.
• “Old Knowledge,” Bat City Review, 2022.
• “Belgian,” Jewish Fiction, 2021.