Jim Nason

Jim Nason has lived in Montreal, Calgary, Syracuse, Vancouver and Toronto. He is a social worker who has worked with marginalized populations for over fifteen years - incuding women and men diagnosed with HIV disease and who are living with mental illness. Jim has also worked as a flight attendant, a bookseller, and has taught creative writing at Ryerson University and was book review and poetry editor for Lexicon Magazine. Jim's stories and poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States. He received his M.A. (English Literature) from McGill; B.S.W. (Bachelor of Social Work) from Ryerson University; and B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) from York University. Jim is a founding member of the Phoebe-Walmer Collective - whose members include - Sue Collins, VJ Kady, Laura Lush and Eddy Yanofsky.

 

Selected Publications
If Lips Were As Red: Poems by Jim Nason (Palmerston Press, 1991) ISBN 1895450020.
The Fist of Remembering (Wolsak and Wynn, Spring 2006)

 

Selected Anthologies

XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience (Sherman Asher, Santa Fe, U.S.A, 1997) ISBN 096441961.

  Jim Nason 182 Victor Avenue, Toronto, ON
jsnason@interlog.com

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