Jeff Friedman’s sixth collection of poetry, Pretenders, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2014. His poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, Quick Fiction, Antioch Review, Agni Online, Boulevard, Big Bridge, 100-Word Story, Sentence, New England Review Digital, Vestal Review, Plume, Flash Fiction Funny, North American Review, The New Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poets, and The New Republic. His and Dzvinia Orlowsky’s translation of Polish poet Mieczyslaw Jastrun’s Memorials was published by Lavender Ink/Dialogos in August 2014.