Jim Wyatt

Jim Wyatt is an American writer living in Warsaw, Poland. After graduating from the University of Missouri (BA, English) and from the University of Iowa (MAT, English Education), he moved abroad, living first in Wroclaw, Poland, then in Istanbul, Turkey. He received an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans, and his short fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including Cimarron Review, River Styx, News from the Republic of Letters and The Greensboro Review, in which he won the Robert Watson Literary Prize.

He currently lives with his wife and their two children in Warsaw, where he teaches English literature and Theory of Knowledge at the American School of Warsaw. He is now at work on a novel examining Poland's communist ghosts.

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