Jeffrey Round is a Sudbury, Ontario born Canadian writer, director and composer. His first novel in 1997 A Cage of Bones was published by the Gay Men's Press (UK), where it topped bestseller lists in Canada, the US, Iceland, Australia and others. Jeffrey's second novel, The P-Town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery, was published in 2007 by the Haworth Press, and republished in 2008 by Cormorant Books in Canada.
In 1990, Round founded "The Church-Wellelsey Review," Canada's first annual print journal for creative writing for the LGBTQ community. It was published for ten years and was also an on-line quarterly for the last two years of its existence.
In 1992, Round co-founded Best Boys Productions, an experimental theatre company, together with John Davison. The company was in operation for five years and produced, among other works, Round's Right To Privacy award-winning play, "Zebra", about the murder of Toronto librarian, Kenneth Zeller, in High Park in 1985. At the same time, Round was the stage director for Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," Canada's longest-running stage production, at the Toronto Truck Theatre.
Round studied at Dalhousie University, and holds a degree in English Literature. He attended the Humber School for Writers as well as Ryerson University's Film and Television program.
The second of the Bradford Fairfax novels, Death In Key West was published by Cormorant in 2009, with the third volume in the series Vanished in Vallarta scheduled to be published in 2010.
The Honey Locust, Jeffrey's forth novel, was published in 2009 by Cormorant Books.
Six poems: Humpback, Dissolve, Flown, Beggar, midstream, Bloor Line, North Beach CA (Maple Tree Literary Supplement (Issue #2) edited by Amatoritsero Ede)
Small Furies (Canadian Literature, No. 182, Autumn 2004)
Burning, remembering — 6 Dec ’91 ((EX)CITE Journal of Contemporary Writing, Premiere Issue, Spring 2001)
Arrangements (Paperplates, Vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2000 (web))
Autumn Lessons (The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 34)
Friends; Father (The New Quarterly, Vol. XVII, no. 3, Fall 1997)
Aria (The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 20)