Meet the P-town Writers: John Treat, Edward Kaufman, Joel Freedman, Neda Za

They were meant to meet in Provincetown, they never made it there. Against all odds, they managed to create the kind of

steadfast writing circle that has now reached its sixth year. Meet the P-town writers as they share their works of prose: John Treat, Edward Kaufman, Joel Freedman, Neda Zahraie

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Ed Kaufman is a retired psychiatrist and recovering psychoanalyst. He received

an MFA from Antioch University in creative non-fiction at the age of 74. He is the editor

of six psychiatric books including FAMILY THERAPY of DRUG AND ALCOHOL

ABUSE, Gardner Press, 1989 and written three including PSYCHOTHERAPY OF

ADDICTED PERSONS, Guilford Press, 1994. His creative non-fiction books include

FROM MONKS TO MOUNTAIN GORILLAS , Forked Road Press, 2011 and TALES OF

A Pr*son PSYCHIATRIST:50 YEARS OF CRIMINALIZATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL

AND ADDICTED IN AMERICA, Gray Matter Press. He spent 15 years in New York City

where was Director of Pr*son Mental Health Services for the City and medical director of

1300 patients at the Lower Eastside Service Center. Ed moved To Laguna Beach and

UC Irvine where he was a professor of psychiatry. He is currently a reporter for the

Laguna Beach Independent and proud to be a member of P-town writers.

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John Whittier Treat’s 2015 novel about the arrival of AIDS in Seattle, The Rise and Fall

of the Yellow House, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay

Fiction. His second novel, the 2022 First Consonants, is the story of a family of stutterers

in the Pacific Northwest,. His new novel, The Seventh City of Refuge, is about the

consequences of risk-taking in a small Washington State town, and will appear from

Phylum Press this fall. Treat’s collection Remembering Our Own: The AIDS Stories is

slated for publication next year. His opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times,

the Huffington Post and LitHub. www.johnwhittiertreat.com.

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