J Weintraub

J. Weintraub, a Chicago writer, has published fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in many literary journals--such as The Massachusetts Review, The New Criterion, Prairie Schooner, and The Dark City-- as well as in regional and specialty publications such as The Chicago Reader, Modern Philology, and Gastronomica. Many of his pieces have been anthologized, and he has received awards for fiction and creative nonfiction from the Illinois Arts Council, the Barrington Arts Council, and Holy Names University. As a member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had over 50 productions of one-act plays and readings staged throughout the United States and in Australia, New Zealand, India, and Germany. His two-act adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s canonical Villeggiatura trilogy, The Summer Season, was published in The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review and can be read online. As a translator he has introduced the Italian horror writer, Nicola Lombardi, to the English-speaking world, and his edition of Lombardi’s The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror was published by Tartarus Press in the UK in 2021. In 2018, his annotated translation of Eugène Briffault’s Paris à table: 1846 was published by Oxford UP.