On Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker has taken two fiction workshops with me at St. Petersburg Summer Literary Seminars in Russia. I have enjoyed and admired his humorous, absurdist stories, written with a light touch, easy-going sentences, yet with a great deal of discipline and compactness. In a playful attitude, he manages to develop drama and to render character idiosyncrasies in a highly original way. I am a great fan of his work.

—Josip Novakovich, associate professor of English at Penn State. His books have won an American Book Award, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA.