Writer Jonathan Treitel has published five novels and story collections set in varied places and times.
During his many residencies at MacDowell, Jonathan has worked on a fiction book related to China and America; wrote a sequence of poems about sheep, as well as a few short stories, a short screenplay, and the outline of a play; wrote stories (mostly part of a projected collection about impostors), as well as poems and collaborated with composer Silvia Fomina, writing the text for an oratorio-like work, and with filmmaker Jesse Moss, writing a treatment for a fiction film about metal detector enthusiasts; wrote several stories about Israelis and Palestinians and began a new novel; and worked on his novel Freud's Alphabet.
