Education
MA The City College of New York, CUNY
BA University of Vermont
Bio
Jeffrey Heiman received his graduate education in the CUNY system and teaches the core literature and creative writing courses at John Jay. He is a fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in the journal Inkwell, several issues of The Massachusetts Review, the Nepal edition of the anthology Travelers' Tales, and other publications. A chapter from his nonfiction novel East Hill was selected for the 2001 edition of Best American Essays. He is co-founder and co-editor of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, John Jay's literary journal, and co-editor of John Jay’s Finest, the yearly anthology of outstanding student writing. He has recently completed a novel, Work Ethic, set during the changing late 1960s in New York City.
