Jim Gilbert has been by turns an indie bookseller, corporate barista, and freelance writer. (Other career misadventures include librarian, editor, and newspaper courier.) His fiction is anthologized in Stories from the Blue Moon Café (2002) and Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers (2004); his nonfiction has appeared in the Oxford American (online edition) and in the Mobile (AL) Register. He lives in Birmingham AL.