James Klise lives in Chicago. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals like StoryQuarterly, New Orleans Review, Ascent, Sou'wester and Southern Humanities Review. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Booklist, the Readerville Journal and elsewhere.

 

By day, he works as a high school librarian in Chicago, where he also advises a teen book group, writing club and the Gay-Straight Alliance.

James Klise