Author: Jeffrey Pillow

Jeffrey Pillow is an American short story writer, memoirist, and poet. He is the author of The Lady Next Door. His writing has been published in Urge Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, 16 Blocks, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, TheBody.com, New York Times, Washington Post, and Richmond Times-Dispatch.

He grew up in the small town of Phenix, Virginia, population: 200, and now lives in Charlottesville with his wife, two kids, and a dog named Mozzarella Cheese. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia where he was a Rainey Scholar. This is his blog.

I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night Sometimes

Stuff My Three Year Old Son Said Today: Volume 2 (A Halloween Special)

I Was Not Mauled or My Face Eaten Off by a Territorial Bear

This is Me Talking About Meditation, This is Me Being Uncomfortable

True Facts from the Small Town of Phenix, Virginia: The Aces

Down by the Water

But When You Give a Feast, Invite the Poor, the Crippled, the Lame, the Blind

Stuff My Three Year Old Son Said Today: Volume 1

The War is Over

This Is Water

The Lady Next Door: An Update

My Interview with Richard Cox, Author of The Boys of Summer: A Novel

Thoughts From My Grandmother’s Funeral; or, This is Not Sad, Depressing Commentary

Snapping Green Beans with Granny

The novel that wasn’t a novel

Birds of One Feather

A pocket knife from my grandfather

So You’re a Minimalist. What Does That Even Mean?

I Am a Minimalist, and This Is the Story of When I Began to Question All of the Superfluous Stuff In My Life

A father’s letter to his children on Father’s Day

Calm the Negative Voice in Your Head; or, My Son Urinated on a Toilet Seat and Couldn’t Be More Proud of Himself

Fish Swim Forth and Stay

Hello, Anxiety. I Know You Are There

In response to Phenix Being Named to the 10 Small Towns In Virginia Where You’d Never Want To Live