Bio, In Brief

Oklahoman by birth, Californian by upbringing, and New Yorker by choice and longevity, Jim Story is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. He has published short stories, creative nonfiction, reviews and poetry in a variety of literary publications, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, won a Best New Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and held a residency at the Edward Albee Center in Montauk, Long Island.

An ex-college history professor (Russian History), Jim holds a PhD from Columbia University and a certificate from the Russian (now Harriman) Institute. He lives in New York City with his life partner, Jill.

Current Projects

Jim’s novel, Wounded By History, previously scheduled for publication in 2008, is now looking for a publisher, as is his collection of short stories, Love and Other Terminal Diseases. Two stories from that collection have recently been accepted for publication -- "Lydia," scheduled for the next issue of The Same, and the title story, which will appear in the next issue of Confrontation. Another story, "Mojave Blues," not from that collection, will appear in the forthcoming issue of And Then.

He is presently at work on Silvercreek Days (working title), a collection of related fictions set on a sprawling corporation farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley in the fifties. When that’s complete, he hopes to get back to a contemporary picaresque novel called Problems of Translation. And lurking somewhere in the background is a police procedural/international mystery, Mirrors and Windows.

For further biographical information, see Jim’s blog, Today’s Story. Other biographical tidbits are shared in an interview with the Women's National Book Association.