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The Present
Jim Cole is a recipient of the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, including The Summerset Review, New Ohio Review, Crack the Spine, The Esthetic Apostle, and Salmon Creek Journal. While earning an MFA from the University of San Francisco, his novel-in-progress ffr
Jim Cole is a recipient of the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, including The Summerset Review, New Ohio Review, Crack the Spine, The Esthetic Apostle, and Salmon Creek Journal. While earning an MFA from the University of San Francisco, his novel-in-progress ffrrfr was nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project. Jim lives and writes on the Russian River in the Northern California town of Duncans Mills.
With a degree in Rhetoric from UC-Berkeley, I decided to work as a journalist so I could write & travel. This plan worked. As a journalist, I worked in Blythe, Calif., El Centro, Calif., Mexico City, Mexicali, Salinas, Calif., the Bay Area, with brief travels to Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong.
The Present
About ffrrfr
The Present
I split my time between writing fiction & working as managing editor for a bank.
About ffrrfr
About ffrrfr
About ffrrfr
This site is named after my novel ffrrfr, an Oulipian adventure that explores the question: Do constraints stifle creativity or do they fuel creativity?