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Jim's first play, The Existentialists, was produced at ACME Theatre in May-June 1983. His second play, The Earthlings, was produced at 7Stages in January-February 1984. In 1986, Jim became Playwright-in-Residence at 7Stages and continues in that capacity to the present. His third full length play, Mr. Universe, was produced in the newly-renovated theatre in July-September 1987. The play went on to productions in New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York, where the New Federal Theatre's Off-Broadway production of the play drew praise from the New York Times.
The play won the George Oppenheimer/Newsday Playwriting Award for 1988, a $5000 prize which is given to the best new playwright being produced in the New York-Long Island area. Mr. Universe also won the Southeastern Playwriting Contest sponsored in 1986 by Southern Exposure, and an excerpt from the play was published in the summer 1986 edition. Another excerpt from the play was recently included in the actor's anthology Best Scenes of the 80s.
Jim was awarded the Bryan Family Prize for Drama by the Fellowship of Southern writers in 1993 for his distinguished body of work as a playwright. Judges for the Fellowship award were Romulus Linney and Horton Foote. Jim's full-length plays, besides those mentioned, include Math and Aftermath (1988), White People (1989), The Lizard of Tarsus (1990) and Belle Ives (1991) all premiering at 7Stages in Atlanta. Jim's adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher was presented at the Theatrical Outfit as part of the Atlanta theatre's Edgar Allen Poe Festival in February 1991 and his play Man With a Gun was produced by SAME in 1989.
Jim's first novel, Winter Birds, was published in the United States by Algonquin Books in the fall of 1994. The novel was first published in German translation in Germany in the spring of 1992, and was translated into French and published by Editions Métailié in 1994. Winter Birds won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. In France, Winter Birds was awarded the Priz Charles Brisset.
Jim has subsequently published two novels in the United States, 1995'sDream Boy, winner of the American Library Association's Gay/Lesbian Literary Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and My Drowning, released in January of 1997, for which he was named Georgia Author of the Year. His books are available in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. His novel, Comfort and Joy, will be published in October 1999 by Algonquin Books; the novel was first published in Germany in 1993.
His fiction has appeared in various anthologies, including Men on Men 6, Flesh and the Word 4, and Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction; his story in that collection, "Free in Asveroth," was selected for publication in The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois.
Jim teaches writing at Emory University in Atlanta and has been a featured reader at book events throughout the Southeast, including readings at the 1994 and 1995 Southern Book Festivals in Nashville. He is a member of the Southeast Playwrights Project, PEN America, the Dramatists Guild, and Alternate ROOTS.
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