Jim Steinberg

Jim Steinberg writes stories to scratch the itches that rise up from within him, to answer the impulses that ask him to visit them and lay them in places of greater repose. When these impulses arise, he finds himself at the beginnings of trails that he knows he will follow without a plan, with no thoughts of synopsis, plot, timeline, or character description. He jumps right in and finds the story, making each a discovery for him, the first reader. Jim is the author of a second collection of...See more

Jim Steinberg writes stories to scratch the itches that rise up from within him, to answer the impulses that ask him to visit them and lay them in places of greater repose. When these impulses arise, he finds himself at the beginnings of trails that he knows he will follow without a plan, with no thoughts of synopsis, plot, timeline, or character description. He jumps right in and finds the story, making each a discovery for him, the first reader. Jim is the author of a second collection of stories, Last Night At The Vista Cafe, and a novel, Boundaries, and has begun work on his second novel, Reunion. His stories have appeared in Clapboard House, The Greensboro Review, The New Renaissance, Sensations Magazine, Cities and Roads, The Lone Wolf Review, The Bishop's House Review, Voices From Home - A North Carolina Prose Anthology, and Best Of Clapboard House. Jim is a Fellow of the Redwood Writing Project of Humboldt State University and a founding member of the Lost Coast Writers' Retreat, a six-day gathering along the Mattole River on the remote Northcoast of California. He has taught English and Social Studies in public schools, practiced law, and worked with legal studies and law enforcement training programs in community colleges in the West and the South. For the last twelve years he has been a mediator specializing in helping couples separate, divorce, and settle child custody concerns and property division in a peaceful, collaborative manner. He does this in the reassuring setting of his home and in tribal courts in Northern California. Mediation is his loved vocation, but his avocation, writing fiction, has first place in his heart, save for the family and friends who fill his life. Jim lives close to his children, grandchildren, and friends on the Northcoast of California in beautiful Humboldt County. See less