Home Contact the Editor: editor@everythingihaveisblue.com	The Blue Contributors Jim Grimsley grew up in a working-class family in rural North Carolina. His novel, Winter Birds, published by Algonquin Books in 1994, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize and winner of a Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dream Boy (Algonquin Books, 1995) won the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Other novels include My Drowning (Algonquin Books, 1997), Boulevard (Algonquin Books, 2002), and Kirith Kirin (Meisha Merlin, 2000). He is playwright in residence at 7Stages Theater in Atlanta and at About Face Theatre of Chicago. In 1987, he received the George Oppenheimer/Newsday Award for Best New American Playwright for Mr. Universe. His collection of plays, Mr. Universe and Other Plays, was published by Algonquin Books in 1998 and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for drama. He received the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Writers Award in 1997. He teaches writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He recently won the Asimov’s Readers Award for his short story “Into Greenwood.” His second novel in the science fiction/fantasy arena, The Ordinary, was published by Tor Books in May 2004.
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