About the Artist
Jim Beane is a fiction writer. His stories have appeared in numerous on-line and print literary journals, the anthology DC Noir, Workers Write: Tales from the Construction Site, the winner of the 2017 Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award and in the current issue of O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal for the Veteran's Writing Project. His fiction chapbook, The Sea, The Sea...will be published in December, 2018 by Wordrunners eChapbooks in on-line format. Four of the five stories are previously unpublished. He leads short fiction workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD and is involved in the mentorship program offered by the Veeran's Writing Project. a fellow at the Virginia Center For the Creative Arts. His story 'Liberty", published by O-Dark Thirty in their 2013 fall/winter print issue was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He owes much to family, friends, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he met the members of his writing critique group. The group has changed some in twenty years, but not much, and still meets once a month to discuss each other's work.
Jim is a native Washingtonian and lives in West Friendship, Maryland. He worked thirty-five years as a carpenter on residential construction sites and now devotes his time to family and writing.
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