Jeffrey M. Feingold is a writer in Boston. His award-winning debut collection of linked short stories, The Black Hole Pastrami, published in 2023, was followed shortly after by his next award-winning book of linked short stories, There Is No Death in Finding Nemo, an Amazon bestseller. Jeffrey’s stories have been nominated for the Pen America Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, the Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Short Stories. His books have won a National Indie Excellence Award, a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, a PenCraft Award, an Indie Reader Discovery Award, and have been finalists for the Eyelands Book Awards, the Wishing Shelf Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the International Book Awards, and the Santa Fe Writers Project Awards.

Jeffrey’s work appears in magazines, such as the international Intrepid Times, and in The Bark. Jeffrey’s work has also been published in anthologies, and by numerous literary reviews and journals, including The Pinch, Maudlin House, Wilderness House Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. 

Jeffrey’s stories about family, about the tension between heritage versus assimilation, and about love, loss, regret, and forgiveness, reveal a sense of absurdity tempered by a love of people and their quirky ways.  His debut, The Black Hole Pastrami, has been praised in reviews by Kirkus Reviews, which called it “…profoundly moving … a textured, imaginative debut collection.” IndieReader said of the book “… Feingold writes with tremendous charm…” 

Both Kirkus Reviews and IndieReader also praised Jeffrey’s second book, There Is No Death In Finding Nemo, with Kirkus writing of its “profound tales” and IndieReader calling it “poignant, frequently hilarious, and almost always surreal.” 

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