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.