James Terry

Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

James Terry’s fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Dublin Review, The South Dakota Review,  The Connecticut Review, The Notre Dame Review, Fiction, Pleiades, The Barcelona Review, Fourteen Hills, Failbetter, North American Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere.  His stories have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart and O.Henry prizes.  He is the author of a short story collection, Kingdom of the Sun (University of New Mexico Press, 2016), two novels, The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare (Sandstone, 2016) and Heir Apparent (Skyhorse, 2019), and a novella, The Return (Outpost19, 2023).

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Return (Outpost19, 2023)
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Heir Apparent (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)
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Kingdom of the Sun (University of New Mexico Press, 2016)
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The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare (Sandstone Press, 2016)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, László Krasznahorkai, Henry Miller, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
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Last update: Jun 19, 2023