James Nolan

James Nolan’s latest books are the memoir Between Dying and Not Dying, I Chose the Guitar: The Pandemic Years in New Orleans, and a translation of the iconic Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again). Nolan’s Flight Risk won the 2018 Next-Generation Indie Book Award for Best Memoir. He has also published three prize-winning books of fiction, four poetry collections, and a translation of Neruda’s Stones of the Sky.  Awarded N.E.A., Javits, and two Fulbright fellowships, he has taught at universities in San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing, as well as in his native New Orleans, where he now lives.