James D. McCallister
Author | West Columbia, SC, USA |
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James D. McCallister has worked as a media archivist, newspaper columnist, free-lance journalist, and small business owner. Besides numerous academic and magazine publications, fiction efforts are highlighted by four novels, King’s Highway (Red Letter Press, 2007), Fellow Traveler (Muddy Ford Press, 2012),&.... more
James D. McCallister has worked as a media archivist, newspaper columnist, free-lance journalist, and small business owner. Besides numerous academic and magazine publications, fiction efforts are highlighted by four novels, King’s Highway (Red Letter Press, 2007), Fellow Traveler (Muddy Ford Press, 2012), Let the Glory Pass Away (Mind Harvest Press, 2017) and Dogs of Parsons Hollow (Mind Harvest Press, 2018), as well as a story collection, The Year They Canceled Christmas (Mind Harvest Press, 2018).
A two-time South Carolina Writer’s Workshop and SC Fiction Project awardee, as well as a Faulkner-Wisdom novel finalist and Saturday Evening Post short story finalist, McCallister teaches creative writing at Midlands Technical College and has appeared as both featured author, panelist, and moderator at the SC Book Festival. In 2013, his personal papers and early drafts relating to Fellow Traveler were accessioned by McHenry Library, University of California-Santa Cruz, as an adjunct collection to the Grateful Dead Archive. A lifelong South Carolinian, McCallister resides in West Columbia, SC, with his wife Jenn and eight beloved cats, muses all.