Jim Tomlinson
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Jim Tomlinson

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Jim Tomlinson was born and raised in a small town in northern Illinois. He has lived in a small New England town, and now lives in a small town in the mid-South. He likes living in small towns, likes the people who live in them. His debut book of short fiction -- Things Kept, Things Left Behind (Univ. of Iowa Press) -- won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Jim's work has recently or will soon appear in Nougat Magazine, Wind, The Pinch, Five Points, Shenandoah Review, Potomac Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. His awards include an Al Smith Fellowship, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, and a Wesleyan Writers Conference teaching fellowship. A low-profile corporate escapee and former engineer, Jim writes full-time now in rural Kentucky.
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