Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published a poetry collection, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press, 2006), nine short story collections—The Apostate's Tattoo (Ragweed Press, 1983), Forms of Captivity and Escape (Thistledown Press, 1988), Unmapped Dreams (Crossed Keys Publishing, 1989), The Miraculous Hand and Other Stories (Ragweed Press, 1991), Dancing at the Club Holocaust (Ragweed Press, 1993), Disturbing Identities (Ekstasis Editions, 1997), Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (Gaspereau Press, 1999), Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Gaspereau Press, 2000), Would You Hide Me? (Gaspereau Press, 2003)—and a novel, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press, 1987), along with two short-fiction chapbooks, Curiosity to Satisfy and Fear to Placate (Mercutio Press, 2003) and Not a Second More, Not a Second Less (Mercutio Press, 2005), and a poetry chapbook, Existence Is a Hoax, a Woman in Fishnet Stockings Told Me When I Was Twenty (Cubicle Press, 2003). His stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, and over thirty of his one-act and full-length plays have been performed, including the full-length plays Acting Violently, The Franz Kafka Therapy Session, and The Golden Age of Monsters, and the one-act plays Godot’s Leafless Tree, No End in Sight, Flowers for the Vases, The Word-Lover, Laugh for Sanity, Back to Back, and The Heirloom: An Evidence Play.