JIM PROVENZANO

Jim Provenzano is the author of the novels Finding Tulsa, Now I'm Here, PINS,

Monkey Suits, Cyclizen, the 2012 Lambda Literary Award winner

Every Time I Think of You, its sequel Message of Love (a Lammy finalist),

the stage adaptation of PINS, and a short fiction collection, Forty Wild Crushes. He edited and published his late uncle John Rigney Jr.'s 1950s novel, The Lost of New York, in 2022. His latest work is the YA novella, Lessons in Teenage Biology, out June 1, 2024.

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Degrees include a BFA in dance from Ohio State University and an MA in English from San Francisco State University. Born in New York City and raised in Ohio, he lives in San Francisco.

A journalist in LGBT media for three decades, and the guest curator of Sporting Life, the world's first gay athletics exhibit, he also wrote the award-winning syndicated Sports Complex column for ten years. He is the Arts Editor with the Bay Area Reporter.