James D. McCallister has worked as a media archivist, newspaper columnist, free-lance journalist, and small business owner. Besides numerous academic and magazine publications, fiction efforts are highlighted by three novels, King's Highway (Red Letter Press, 2007), Fellow Traveler (Muddy Ford Press, 2012), and Let the Glory Pass Away (Mind Harvest Press, 2017). 
 
A two-time South Carolina Writer's Workshop and SC Fiction Project awardee as well as a Faulkner-Wisdom and Saturday Evening Post short story finalist, McCallister teaches creative writing at Midlands Technical College and has appeared as both featured author and moderator at the SC Book Festival. In 2013, his personal papers and early drafts relating to Fellow Traveler were accessioned by McHenry Library, University of California-Santa Cruz, as an adjunct collection to the Grateful Dead Archive. A lifelong South Carolinian, McCallister resides in Columbia, SC, with his wife Jenn and eight beloved cats, muses all.