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Tim Gilmore has written 22 books including The Culture Wars of Warren Folks, Murder Capital: Eight Stories, 1890s-1980s, Channeling Anna Fletcher, Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows, The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard, Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, and The Mad Atlas of Virginia King. Four of his works for the stage have been produced by Florida State College at Jacksonville DramaWorks. His writing has appeared in numerous publications both locally and nationally.
Gilmore is the writer and creator of Jax Psycho Geo, a hometown project that explores place and catalogues the Southern Gothic, telling more than 700 stories of strange and historic locations in and around Jacksonville, Florida. JaxPsychoGeo has received mention in publications including The Miami Herald, The Washington Post and The New Yorker and was featured in the A24 book Florida! A Hyper-Local Guide to the Flora, Fauna and Fantasy of the Most Far-Out State in America.
Gilmore is the founder of JaxbyJax, now in its 10th year, a literary arts festival built on the theme of “Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville.” He teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He’s received awards from FSCJ, the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and Jacksonville City Council. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.
You can also read his regular posts about architecture and anti-racism, moonshine murder and racist governors, alligator electroliers and writers at Tim Gilmore’s deadpaper page.
b&w photo credit: James Hunter