Jim Grimsley

Jim Grimsley is an award-winning playwright and author. His latest novels are The Last Green Tree, and Forgiveness, which was published as part of the inaugural James. A. Michener Fiction Series. His 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.