Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-four books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation and Word Burials, fourteen short story collections—The Apostate's Tattoo, Forms of Captivity and Escape, Unmapped Dreams, The Miraculous Hand, Dancing at the Club Holocaust, Disturbing Identities, Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized?, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown, Would You Hide Me?, A Glass Shard and Memory, Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell, An Unauthorized Biography of Being, Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles, and Acting on the Island —and eight poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices, Misshapenness, Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds, Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be, A Visit to the Kafka Café, Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement, Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential, and As You Continue to Wait; and over sixty of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States, including the full-length plays The Franz Kafka Therapy Session, The Golden Age of Monsters, and A Television-Watching Artist; the one-act plays The Heirloom: An Evidence Play, Godot’s Leafless Tree, The Waiting Ends, The Entrance-or-Not Barroom, Freesias in Whiskey, Laugh for Sanity, Back to Back, No End in Sight, Flowers for the Vases, Sea Monsters, More Than Money, Imaginative Drinking, A Play of Disbelief, Memory Sounds, and In a Washroom of a Prestigious Art Gallery; and the audio plays In Becky's Name, A New Map, The Professor's Ashes, and Diogenes’ Lantern.