Jim Tomlinson

Jim Tomlinson grew up in a small northern Illinois town and lived for many years in a small New England town. He lives now in rural Kentucky with his wife, fiber artist Gin Petty. His fiction and poetry have been published in The Pinch, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.Jim's debut short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His short story, "First Husband, First Wife" was published in Five Points and recently anthologized in New Stories from the South, 2008. A second book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean, is just out, published by University Press of Kentucky.