Author, Journalist and Dancer Jim Provenzano at "The Long & Short of It"

Jim Provenzano is the author of five novels, a short story collection, numerous stories in anthologies and magazines, and a play. His novel Every Time I Think of You won a Lambda Literary Award and its sequel Message of Love was a LLA finalist. His stage adaptation of his novel PINS received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award. He has also received several awards in journalism. For more information, see jimprovenzano.blogspot.com/

A graduate of Ohio State University in dance, Jim performed with the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, the Bill Cratty Dance Theatre and choreographer Steve Gross and also created and performed his own works. He has been a reporter, columnist and editor at the Bay Area Reporter newspaper in San Francisco since 1989. He earned his Masters in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1997.

July 11, Jim will read from his latest book, 40 Wild Crushes, his first short story collection, at the Perfectly Queer reading series program "The Long & Short of It," featuring writers who publish both long and short fiction. For more information on the reading, go to facebook.com/events/619573908219248

(author photo by Steven Underhill)