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Jim Tomlinson

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Jim Tomlinson grew up in a small northern Illinois town and lived for many years in a small New England town. He lives now in rural Kentucky with his wife, fiber artist Gin Petty. His fiction and poetry have been published in The Pinch, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Jim's debut short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His short story, "First Husband, First Wife" was published in Five Points and recently anthologized in New Stories from the South, 2008.

A second book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean, is just out, published by University Press of Kentucky.

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Books by Jim Tomlinson

Average rating: 4.46 · 101 ratings · 29 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Things Kept, Things Left Behind 4.48 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Seven Days in December 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	Public Policy and the Economy Since 1900 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Economic Policy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	"The Conservatives and Industrial Efficiency, 1951-1964" by Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention by Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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Short Story lovers — 242 members — last activity May 18, 2012 08:29am
For people who especially love short stories, and don't care who knows it!

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