Jim was born in San Francisco, California. Since then he’s lived in Tucson, Arizona; Changsha, China; Boulder, Colorado; Bangkok, Thailand; Seoul, South Korea; Norwich, England; and whenever possible, Brevard, North Carolina. He received his MFA in prose from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and is completing his PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at The University of East Anglia. He edits the online Journal, past simple.

The Louisiana Purchase (Rose Metal Press, 2011), Seoul Bus Poems (Reality Street, 2010)

Whole Milk (Effing Press, 2006)

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Motel, 2006)

42opus, Bombay Gin, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Ducts Magazine, Dusie, Elimae, Forklift, Ohio, Harvard Review, Horse Less Review, H_ngm_n, Jacket, knock, New Delta Review, nidus, No Tell Motel, Octopus Magazine, Phoebe, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Typo Magazine, Word For/Word