

A fantasy novel, Kirith Kirin, was published by Meisha Merlin Books in 2000 and won the Lambda in the science fiction and horror category for 2001. His fourth novel, Comfort & Joy, was published in October 1999 and was a Lambda finalist. His third novel, My Drowning, was released in January 1997 by Algonquin Books and for it, he was named Georgia Author of the Year. Jim's second novel, Dream Boy, won the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature (the Stonewall Prize) and was a Lambda finalist. The novel won the 1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Jim's first novel, Winter Birds, was published by Algonquin Books in 1994. Jim Grimsley is a playwright and novelist.
