Jeffrey Heiman received his graduate education in the CUNY system and teaches the core literature and creative writing courses at John Jay. He is a fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in the journal Inkwell, several issues of The Massachusetts Review, the Nepal edition of the anthology Travelers' Tales, and other publications. A chapter from his nonfiction novel East Hill was selected for the 2001 edition of Best American Essays. He is co-founder and co-editor of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, John Jay's literary journal, and co-editor of John Jay’s Finest, the yearly anthology of outstanding student writing.  He has recently completed a novel, Work Ethic, set during the changing late 1960s in New York City.