Wednesday, April 22nd at noon in the Rines Auditorium
Portland, Maine - Closer All the Time is Nichols’s third work of fiction. It strings together the bittersweet stories of severaldifferent characters inhabiting the town of Baxter, Maine. Using the river named for the town as a backdrop, Nichols artfully explores the nature of connection—hoped for, missed, lost, and found. Nichols is the author of the collection Slow Monkeys and Other Stories as well as a novel, Hull Creek (which was selected as runner up for fiction at the Maine Book Awards in 2012, and also won a silver medal IPPY award for regional fiction, New York and New England).
About the author
Jim Nichols was born and raised in a small town in Maine, one of nine children. After graduating high school, he studied History and English at the University of Southern Maine, and Oceanography and Marine Biology at Southern Maine Community College He chose not to pursue a corporate career, turning instead to music and drama—performing for the Portland Players, the Windham Community Theater, and doing local television spots; and singing and playing the guitar at local clubs—and later to fiction writing. He published his first story after a year, and his work has appeared since in magazines like Esquire, december, Narrative, elimae, Germ, The Clackamas Review, Night Train, Portland Monthly and American Fiction, as well as overseas publications like paris transcontinental (FR) and From The Ashes (BR). His short fiction has been anthologized a number of times, and has won the Willamette Fiction Award, the Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction, a River City Writing Award, an American Fiction Honorable Mention, and an Independent Artists Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. He has also been a finalist in contests at Narrative (twice), Glimmer Train (twice), Prime Number and Enizagam. He is a five time Pushcart Prize nominee.
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