James Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, is a widely published fiction writer, poet, essayist, and translator. His twelfth book, Nasty Water: Collected New Orleans Poems (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press), came out in 2018. Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy (University Press of Mississippi) won a 2017 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Memoir. Other recent titles include You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction), the novel Higher Ground (awarded a Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal), and Perpetual Care (selected as the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Short Story Collection). He has received Fulbright, N.E.A., and Javits fellowships, and taught creative writing and literature at universities in Florida, San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. More recently he has been writer-in-residence at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans, where for twelve years he directed the Loyola Writing Institute.. His B.A in English is from Eckerd College, his M.A. in English from Stony Brook, and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California (Berkeley/Santa Cruz, 1988).
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