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Jeff Hoffmann

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Jeff Hoffmann was born and raised in St. Louis and received an MFA in fiction from Columbia College Chicago. Hoffmann’s writing has appeared in Barely South Review, The Sun, Harpur Palate, The Roanoke Review, Booth, The Baltimore Review, and Lunch Ticket. Hoffmann is the winner of the Madison Review’s 2018 Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2019 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. He lives in Elmhurst, IL, with his wife and two children.

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	Other People's Children 3.77 avg rating — 4,499 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like It Never Happened 3.49 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My debut novel, OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, was about expectations, and explored how different people react when their reality doesn’t match what they expected from their lives. My second novel, LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED, which releases on March 5th, is about accountability.

Four 18-year-old boys do something terrible. They get away with it, but their friendship shatters. The novel opens when one of them Read more of this blog post »

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Brilliant retelling of Huck Finn that makes Twain's version seem like the fan fiction. Brimming with humor, imagination, and pain, it questions everything. ...more
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A 200-page prose poem that I'm still thinking about six months later. ...more
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A unique take on the WWII love story that centers the personal losses inflicted not only by war but also by fascism and authoritarianism in a way that resonates today.
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A unique take on the WWII love story that centers the personal losses inflicted not only by war but also by fascism and authoritarianism in a way that resonates today.
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A beautifully-written story of love, family, grief, and resilience.
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The characters in Cravings demanded my full attention and my deepest empathy. Kilberg Cohen crafts their voice and their circumstances brilliantly, revealing the moment around which the rest of their life is tangled. Each of them yearns for something ...more
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“But then she thought of that lime squirming inside of Carli, and she wondered if she could really come back after four months. Could she drop her baby off at day care every morning, leave that baby for eight or nine hours at a stretch? If she stayed at home with the baby, she would miss that shot of adrenaline when she closed a deal, and she would miss the scrape and clatter of the shop, but what if she missed her baby’s first steps or first words?”
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