I'm a writer from Mississippi living in Rochester, New York.
My essays are in Longreads, The Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Essays.
I have published three novels with Simon and Schuster: Angela Sloan, Frankland, and Approximately Heaven. My short stories are in Washington Square Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, SWING, The Iowa Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Oxford American, Mississippi Review, and The Sewanee Review.
Ditchways was an Instagram project in which I took pictures of draining water. The Headlight Review published a related essay with photos, "Flow of Words".
I teach writing classes and run a visiting writers series, the Brockport Writers Forum, at SUNY Brockport.
You can reach me at jameswhortonjr@gmail.com