G. Winston James

G. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, short fiction writer, essayist and editor.  A former fellow of the Millay Colony for the Arts, he holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and is the author of the poetry collection The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love and the Lambda Literary Award finalist collection Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road. His poetry also appears in numerous anthologies and publications, including Black Ivy: A Literary and Visual Arts Magazine; Bloom Magazine: Queer Fiction, Art, Poetry and More; Kuumba: A Poetry Journal for Black People in the Life; Milking Black Bull: 11 Black Gay Poets; The Nubian Gallery; Role Call:  A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art; and the Lambda Literary Award winning anthologies, Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing, 1979 to the Present; Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, and The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets.

His fiction, essays and interviews can also be found in Carry the Word:  A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books; The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica; Brooklyn Review; Think Again; Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters; Fighting Words: Personal Essays by Black Gay Men; His 2: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers; Adult Learning and Development: Multicultural Stories; The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica; Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent; and Waves: An Anthology of New Gay Fiction.

He has collaborated with choreographers Tyrone Aiken, Loris Anthony Beckles, Ronald K. Brown, Trébien Pollard and André Tyson and has read and performed at diverse venues and events including the American Dance Festival, Columbia University, Dance Theater Workshop, EXIT Festival International (Créteil, France), George Mason University, Harvey Milk High School, the Joyce Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, Pitzer College, Rutgers University, and The Smithsonian Institution among other national and international venues.

A former Executive Director of the Other Countries: Black Gay Expression artists’ collective, he was a founding organizer of Fire & Ink: A Writers Festival for GLBT People of African Descent.  James is also co-editor of the historic anthologies, Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing and the Lambda Literary Award finalist publication Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity.

He currently divides his time between Hollywood, Florida and Brooklyn, New York.