Jason K. Fried­man is the author of the sto­ry col­lec­tion Fire Year, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fic­tion and the Anne and Robert Cow­an Writ­ers Award. His arti­cle on the Solomon Cohen fam­i­ly, pub­lished in Moment mag­a­zine, won an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Press Asso­ci­a­tion Award. He lives in San Fran­cis­co, with his hus­band, film­mak­er Jef­frey Friedman.