Jason K. Friedman is the author of the story collection Fire Year (Sarabande, 2013), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, as well as the children's books Phantom Trucker and Haunted Houses. He earned a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Moment, Tablet, San Francisco Chronicle, Gettysburg Review, Image, South Carolina Review, Mission at Tenth, Jonathan, Fjords Review, Decadent Review, and Cimarron Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Gay Fiction, The Queer South, and the cultural studies reader Goth. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman.

A revealing prism through which to examine a dark period of American history" - Publishers Weekly"The insightful product of years of research" - Savannah Morning News"[A]n engrossing and thoughtful investigation of a slave owning Jewish family in the American South, with all of its attendant contradictions, self-justifications, and cognitive dissonances." - Lauren Gilbert Jewish Book council

Jason K. Friedman is the author of the story collection Fire Year (Sarabande, 2013), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, as well as the children's books Phantom Trucker and Haunted Houses. He earned a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Moment, Tablet, San Francisco Chronicle, Gettysburg Review, Image, South Carolina Review, Mission at Tenth, Jonathan, Fjords Review, Decadent Review, and Cimarron Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Gay Fiction, The Queer South, and the cultural studies reader Goth. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman.

A revealing prism through which to examine a dark period of American history" - Publishers Weekly"The insightful product of years of research" - Savannah Morning News"[A]n engrossing and thoughtful investigation of a slave owning Jewish family in the American South, with all of its attendant contradictions, self-justifications, and cognitive dissonances." - Lauren Gilbert Jewish Book council

Jason K. Friedman is the author of the story collection Fire Year (Sarabande, 2013), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, as well as the children's books Phantom Trucker and Haunted Houses. He earned a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Moment, Tablet, San Francisco Chronicle, Gettysburg Review, Image, South Carolina Review, Mission at Tenth, Jonathan, Fjords Review, Decadent Review, and Cimarron Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Gay Fiction, The Queer South, and the cultural studies reader Goth. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman.

A revealing prism through which to examine a dark period of American history" - Publishers Weekly"The insightful product of years of research" - Savannah Morning News"[A]n engrossing and thoughtful investigation of a slave owning Jewish family in the American South, with all of its attendant contradictions, self-justifications, and cognitive dissonances." - Lauren Gilbert Jewish Book council