About the Author

James Lilliefors is a poet, journalist, and novelist.

His poems and stories have appeared in Third Wednesday, Ploughshares, The Plentitudes, Door Is A Jar, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Hooghly Review, Amethyst Review, Salvation South, The Washington Post, 3 Elements Review, Front Porch Review, the Hyacinth Review, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Roi Fainèant Press, the Belfast Review, Nine Muses Review, Tangled Locks Journal, Rough Diamond, and elsewhere. 

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His first collection of poems, Sudden Shadows, will be published by Finishing Line Press in October 2025.

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Raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Lilliefors worked for many years as a journalist, beginning his career on the editorial staff of Runner’s World magazine and later writing and editing for newspapers in Maryland and Florida. He was the founding editor of two newspapers in Ocean City, Maryland. He has written for The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere, and was the boxing correspondent for The Cable Guide magazine. He began writing poetry in 2021 after the passing of his wife and, months later, undergoing bypass surgery. 

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His novels include The Children's Game (written as Max Karpov, Skyhorse, 2018), The Psalmist (HarperCollins, 2014), The Tempest (HarperCollins, 2015), The Leviathan Effect (Soho, 2013), Viral (Soho, 2012), and Bananaville (St. Martin’s, 1996). He is the author of several non-fiction books, including Highway 50, America's Boardwalks, and Ball Cap Nation.

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Lilliefors was also the head writer at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida (now Artis-Naples) for 15 years, and has contributed to several books on art. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and was a graduate writing fellow at the University of Virginia.

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