James Nolan is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. A regular contributor to Boulevard, his work has appeared in New Orleans Noir (Akashic Books), Utne Reader, The Washington Post, and Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse among other magazines, anthologies, and newspapers. He has translated the work of Spanish-language poets Pablo Neruda and Jaime Gil de Biedma. Nolan is a fifth-generation native of New Orleans and lives in the French Quarter.
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Nolan received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has gone on to teach Literature and Creative Writing at universities in Florida, San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. Until recently, he was the Writer-in-Residence at New Orleans' Tulane and Loyola Universities, where he directed the Loyola Writing Institute. Nolan currently teaches creative writing for the Arts Council of New Orleans.
He has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant and two Fulbright Fellowships. His collection of short stories, Perpetual Care, won the 2007 Jefferson Press Prize. Nolan was awarded the 2008 Faulkner–Wisdom gold medal in the novel category for the manuscript of his first novel Higher Ground.[1] Published by University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press on October 25, 2011,[2] Nolan’s post–Katrina novel was described as a "lumpy, campy, intermittently funny and totally unlikely book" by Times-Picayune writer Diana Pinckley.[3]