AUTHORS

Jay has acquired and edited hundreds of books, and also founded and edited a magazine and newspaper syndicate of short stories (Fiction Network.).  Some of the well-known and previously unpublished writers he has worked with include:

Alice Adams
, Kim Addonizio
, Kathleen Alcalá
, Lisa Alvarez
, Eric Chase Anderson
, Jodi Angel
, Catherine Armsden, Melba Pattillo Beals
, Ann Beattie, 
Robin Beeman, 
David Borgenicht, 
Barbara Boxer
, Chrisann Brennan
, Georgeanne Brennan
, Robert Olen Butler
, Herb Caen
, James Calder
, Bo Caldwell
, Ron Carlson
, Roz Chast
, Kelly Cherry
, Alan Cheuse
, Geoffrey Clifford, 
Barnaby Conrad III, 
James Dalessandro
, Andre Dubus
, Craig Ferguson
, Wolfram Fleischhauer
, Dagoberto Gilb
, Fred S. Goldberg, 
Kathi Kamen Goldmark
, Nadia Gordon
, James Grace, 
Peter Grandbois
, Lawrence Halprin, 
Kamala Harris, 
Tom De Haven, 
Noah Hawley, 
Jason Headley
, David Hoffman, 
Ann Hood
, David Huddle, 
David Inglish
, Fenton Johnson, 
Susan Jonas
, Nicholas Jose
, David Knowles
, Don Kurtz
, David Leavitt
, John L’Heureux
, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
, Amy Maniatis
, Bobbie Ann Mason, 
Alice Mattison
, Frances Mayes, 
Ruthanne Lum McCunn, 
Erin McGraw
, Christie Mellor
, Elizabeth Helman Minchelli
, Joseph Monninger, 
Lorrie Moore
, Bharati Mukherjee
, John Nichols
, Marilyn Nissenson
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Tim O’Reilly, Ann Packer
, Roy Parvin
, Lucien Perkins, 
Tom Petty
, Dan Piraro, 
Joshua Piven
, Josh Richman
, Alberto Ríos
, Penelope Rowlands
, Kirk Russell
, Dashka Slater
, Jane Smiley
, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
, Anish Sheth
, Charles Simmons
, John Snyder
, Gary Soto
, Amy Tan, 
Alan Temko, 
Marian Thurm, 
Cameron Tuttle
, Samantha Verant
, Elizabeth Weil
, Ellis Weiner
, Monica Wood, 
Summer Wood
, Jennifer Worick
, Howard Zaharoff
, Carla Zarebska
 and many others.