Jim Grimsley

Jim Grimsley is the author of four previous novels: Winter
Birds, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of
the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters; Dream Boy, nominated for the
Lambda Literary Award for fiction and winner of the GLBTF
Book Award for literature from the ALA; My Drowning, a Lila
Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award winner; and Comfort
and Joy. He is a playwright in residence at 7 Stages Theatre
of Atlanta and About Face Theatre of Chicago and is the
author of Mr. Universe and other Plays. He lives in Atlanta
and teaches at Emory University.