Jim Breslin is an author and storyteller. His latest novel, SHOPLANDIA, is inspired by his seventeen years as a producer at the home shopping network QVC. His first collection of stories, Elephant, is a mix of short stories, flash fiction and prose poems about the loneliness and hope found in suburbia. His fiction has been published in Molotov Cocktail, Turk's Head Review, Metazen and Think Journal, and his non-fiction writing has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and on websites. He also published Chester County Fiction, an anthology featuring sixteen stories from thirteen writers. Jim is the founder of the West Chester Story Slam, a monthly storytelling event in downtown West Chester, and Delco Story Slam in Newtown Square, PA. He lives in West Chester, PA.