About the Author
James Lilliefors is a poet, journalist, and novelist.
He is author of the poetry chapbooks Sudden Shadows (Finishing Line Press, 2025), There Will Be Warnings (Moonstone Press, 2026), and The Staggering Sum (River Paw Press, 2027).
His poems and stories have appeared in West Trade Review, The Madrid Review, The Plentitudes, Ploughshares, Third Wednesday, The Midwest Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, the Comstock Review, Oyster River Pages, The Milk House, Door Is A Jar, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Hooghly Review, Amethyst Review, Salvation South, 3 Elements Review, Front Porch Review, The Bookends Review, The Hyacinth Review, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Roi Fainèant Press, the Belfast Review, Nine Muses Review, Tangled Locks Journal, Rough Diamond, and elsewhere.
Raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Lilliefors worked for years as a journalist, beginning his career on the editorial staff of Runner’s World magazine and later working for newspapers in Maryland and Florida. He was the founding editor of two newspapers in Ocean City, Maryland, the Maryland Coast Dispatch and Ocean City Today. He has written for The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere, and is the former 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.
His novels include The Children's Game (written as Max Karpov, Skyhorse, 2018), The Tempest (HarperCollins, 2015) The Psalmist (HarperCollins, 2014), The Leviathan Effect (Soho, 2013), Viral (Soho, 2012), and Bananaville (St. Martin’s, 1996). He is the author of several non-fiction books as well, including Highway 50, America's Boardwalks, and Ball Cap Nation.
Lilliefors was 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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