Celebrating J.J. Steinfeld, Literary Maestro

The Bookmark and the UPEI Faculty of Arts and English Department invite you to the celebration of J.J. Steinfeld’s stellar literary achievements and contributions to the culture of PEI, Canada, and beyond.

The celebration will take place in The Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown. The evening will include short readings and tributes by Island writers and other friends of Steinfeld. Admission is free.

J.J. is one of the most respected, honoured, multi-talented, and prolific authors to grace the shores of Prince Edward Island. This short story writer, novelist, poet, and playwright has published 24 books since settling on the Island in 1980.

J.J. was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor parents. After a circuitous absurdist/existential /geographical journey, stopping along the way to get his master’s degree in history from Trent University and spending two years in a PhD program at the University of Ottawa, he moved to PEI to write full time.

He lives hidden away in Charlottetown with his wife, visual artist Brenda Whiteway.

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