Jim Grimsley

Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary. His latest two novels are The Last Green Tree, published by Tor Books of New York in 2006, and Forgiveness, published by the University of Texas Press as part of the inaugural James. A. Michener Fiction Series. His new story collection, Jesus Is Sending You This Message, was published in September 2008 by Alyson Books. Jim received the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award for his body of work in 1997, and has twice been a finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003-2004). In 2005 he won an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jim was one of the inaugural recipients of the James Duggins Mid-Career Author’s Award in 2007.