Jim Nichols is a Maine native who lives in Warren with his wife, Anne. His work has been published in numerous venues, including
Esquire,
Portland Monthly,
Zoetrope ASE,
Narrative and
Night Train. He is a past winner of the Willamette Fiction Award, and was awarded an Independent Artists Fellowship by the Maine Arts Commission. His collection Slow Monkeys and Other Stories was published by Carnegie Mellon Press in 2003, and his novel Hull Creek is just out from Down East Books.