Jeff Ewing is the author of the short story collection The Middle Ground, published in 2019 by Into the Void Press and selected as a finalist for the Foreword Review Indie Awards. His stories have been published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including Crazyhorse, Southwest Review, Into the Void, SAND, Cherry Tree, Catamaran, ELJ, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Atticus Review.
Wind Apples, Jeff’s debut poetry collection from Terrapin Books, evokes what Chelsea Dingman calls “a present in which there is much to be mourned because there is much to love.” 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 Subtropics.
A number of Jeff’s essays and nonfiction pieces originally appeared in the Sacramento News & Review, an award-winning alternative weekly, as well as in literary journals including Clockhouse, River Teeth, and Phoebe. His long-form nonfiction piece on dirty water, off-the-grid fishing, “A Ditch Runs Through It,” won a Best Writing Award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and was subsequently reprinted in Utne Reader.
As a playwright, Jeff has had plays staged in New York and Los Angeles. 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. His one-act plays have won the FirstStage Prize and been featured in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
Jeff was born in Gettysburg, PA, and moved among several small Pennsylvania towns before settling with his family in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied English and American Literature. In Bergen, Norway, he expanded his studies to include World Literature, with a focus on modern Scandinavian authors. He works as a technical writer and editor in Sacramento.