John Jeffire / July 23, 2025

John Jeffire
John Jeffire

John Jeffire is the Detroit author of two novels and three poetry collections. His novel Motown Burning won the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition and the 2007 Independent Publishing Awards Gold Medal for Regional Fiction.  In 2022, his novel River Rouge won the American Writing Award for Legacy Fiction. His recent poetry collection is A Temple for Tomorrows. 

John’s recorded reading is now part of the archives on our YouTube channel.