Jim Grimsley is the author of How I Shed My Skin and four previous novels, among them Winter Birds, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; Dream Boy, winner of the GLBTF Book Award for literature; My Drowning, a Lila-Wallace-Readerâ??s Digest Writerâ??s Award winner; and Comfort and Joy. He lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.