Jim Hilgartner

Jim Hilgartner is an American author of poetry and fiction. He writes primarily short fiction, often composing longer stories from assembled shorter vignettes.^[1] He received his MFA from the University of Alabama. He taught at Alabama^[2] and at Alabama Southern Community College,^[3] and since 2006 has been teaching English at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Hilgartner has twice received the Fellowship in Literature from the Alabama State Council on the Arts: in 2001 and again in 2011.^[4]