James Nolan

James Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, is a widely published writer, poet, and translator. His recent Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy (University Press of Mississippi) won the 2018 Next-Generation Indie Book Award for Best Memoir. His fiction includes You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction), the novel Higher Ground (awarded a Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal), and Perpetual Care: Stories. Other poetry collections are Why I Live in the Forest and What Moves Is Not the Wind, together with Drunk on Salt. His translations from the Spanish include Pablo Neruda’s Stones of the Sky and Longing: Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma. He has received an N.E.A. grant as well as a Javits and two Fulbright fellowships, and taught at universities in San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, Beijing, and Florida, as well as at Tulane and Loyola in New Orleans, where he now lives.