JEFFREY HEIMAN

Jeffrey Heiman received his graduate education in the CUNY system and teaches the core Literature 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 serves as co-editor, with Adam Berlin, of J , John Jay's fledgling literary journal, and at present he's coaxing a new novel, Work Ethic, toward completion.