Professional Activities

Jeff Friedman’s sixth book, Pretenders, will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2014. The book contains poems and prose pieces. Friedman’s work has appeared in many literary journals, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry International, New England Review and The New Republic. He has won numerous literary awards. He teaches Creative Writing, Prose Poem, Mini Story, The Living Poem, The Lyric Poem, and Cooking, Eating and Dreaming. In the fall, he will be teaching an innovative new course Walk! Write! a workshop in which the students will explore walking as a means of inspiration for stories and poems. Friedman has also recently completed a book of mini tales, fables, parables, comic sketches and other prose pieces.