Jeff Soloway was born in Boston and grew up in a small town in Massachusetts called Wrentham. After graduating from college, he spent two years working in Europe—as a typesetter in London, an administrator for Microsoft in Dublin, and an English teacher in Madrid. He then moved to New York City to work in publishing, first as an editor of Frommer’s travel guides and later as the executive editor of the Bloom’s Literature database, where for many years he collaborated with the legendary literary critic Harold Bloom. Today Jeff lives and works in New York City, where his children go to public schools and his wife is an investigator for New York City’s police-oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Jeff’s Travel Writer series of mystery novels was published by Penguin Random’s Alibi imprint until the imprint was shuttered in 2021. Recently, he has focused on writing short fiction, which has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Mystery Magazine, various Mystery Writers of America book anthologies, and other outlets. In 2014 he won the Robert L. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and in 2022 his short story “The Interpreter and the Killer” was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award.
You can contact him at jmsoloway@yahoo.com.
Jeff Soloway 