Jeff Ewing is the author of the short story collection The Middle Ground, published by Into the Void Press, and the poetry collection Wind Apples, forthcoming in 2021 from Terrapin Books. His stories, poems, and essays have been widely published in literary magazines, including Crazyhorse, Southwest Review, Subtropics, Catamaran, ZYZZYVA, Utne Reader, Cherry Tree, and Atlanta Review. His full-length play The Middle of Nowhere received the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award and world premiered at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York. Jeff lives in Sacramento, California.
The Middle Ground: Stories
Into the Void Press, 2019
“These landscapes, these characters, this prose, my god, it grabs you and it doesn’t let you go.” —Kevin Wilson, author of NOTHING TO SEE HERE
“In sharp, precise prose, Ewing renders hardscrabble stories that remind equally of Annie Proulx and Denis Johnson. These are Polaroids collected on a shelf, forgotten, and then viewed again to tell of the lives they once lovingly chronicled—now dusty, scratched, lost. The effect is magnificent.” —Christian Kiefer, author of PHANTOMS
“Ewing’s debut tunes to a haunting static.” —Foreword Reviews
The Middle Ground is a place we’ve all crossed, the halfway point between who you are and who you want to be. In Jeff Ewing’s collection of stories, his diversely American characters call it home. From a story of a man living in the shadow of an abandoned missile silo that may hold the answer to a mystery of vanished children, to one of a small-town beauty tentatively courting stardom, Ewing’s sparse, musical prose illuminates lives lived in that space between fear and courage, hope and regret, life and death. Fog remembers, revenge beckons, and loneliness gives birth to fragile beauty—while in the distance the future gleams on a car hood, daring bold hands to seize it.
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Coming Soon: Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
Jeff Ewing writes poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction. His short story collection The Middle Ground was published by Into the Void Press in 2019. His poems can be found in numerous literary journals, including ZYZZYVA, Sugar House Review, Saint Ann’s Review, Willow Springs, Spillway, Catamaran, Tar River Poetry, and Atlanta Review. A previous version of Wind Apples was a finalist for the 2016 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2019 Catamaran Prize. He lives in Sacramento, California, where he works as a technical writer and editor. Wind Apples is his debut poetry collection.