Harold Jaffe, PhD

Harold Jaffe went to Grinnell College for his B.A., and received a Ph.D in Literature, with Distinction,
from New York University.

Professor Jaffe is the author of seventeen books: 14 collections of fiction, "docufuction" and creative nonfiction, and four novels. These include Mourning Crazy Horse (1982), Dos Indios (1983), Beasts (1986), Madonna and Other Spectacles (1988), Eros Anti-Eros (1990), Straight Razor (1995), Othello Blues (1996), Sex for the Millennium (1999), False Positive (2002), 15 Serial Killers (2003), Terror-dot-Gov (2005), Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture (2007), Jesus Coyote (2008), Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories (2010), Paris 60 (2010) and OD, a collection of texts featuring known people who have died either deliberately or inadvertently by overdosing on drugs, will be published in 2011.

Jaffe's writing has been anthologized in Pushcart Prize on three occasions, in Best American Stories, Best of American Humor, Storming the Reality Studio, American Made, Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, After Yesterday's Crash, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, City Lights Review, and elsewhere. His writings have been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Farsi, French, Polish, Turkish, and Czech. He has won numerous awards, including two NEAs for fiction; a California Arts Council grant for fiction; a New York CAPS grant for fiction; a San Diego COMBO grant; and two Fulbright grants to Pragueand to India. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International.