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Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jim Nason is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario.[1] He is most noted for his poetry collection Rooster, Dog, Crow, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Raymond Souster Award in 2019.[2]
He has also been nominated for several ReLit Awards, receiving nods in the Poetry category for Narcissus Unfolding in 2012 [3] and Touch Anywhere to Begin in 2017,[4] and in the Short Fiction category for The Girl on the Escalator in 2012.[3]
He published his debut poetry collection If Lips Were As Red in 1991, but put his writing career on hold for a number of years to work as a caregiver for people with HIV/AIDS. He returned to writing in the 2000s following the death of his partner,[5] publishing the poetry collection The Fist of Remembering in 2006 and the novel The Housekeeping Journals, based in part on his own experiences as a caregiver, in 2007.[6]
He became the owner and publisher of Tightrope Books in 2014.
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