James Goldberg

James Goldberg is an American historian, playwright, poet, and writer. He has Jewish, European, and Punjabi ancestors, and his grandfather, Gurcharan Singh Gill, was the first Sikh to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He attended Otterbein University briefly before transferring to Brigham Young University (BYU), where he completed his undergraduate work and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. He was an adjunct professor at BYU.

He founded two organizations: the Mormon Lit Blitz (with his wife, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg) and the theatrical company, New Play Project. He is a contributor to the Saints history project with the LDS Church, writing content for the volumes in the series. He is on the board for the Association of Mormon Letters (AML), and served as its president from 2020 to 2021. He won three AML Awards, and was a finalist for three others. He received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from BYU.

He has published two novels, four collections of poetry, and two other books.

Biography Goldberg's grandfather, Gurcharan Singh Gill, was the first to emigrate to the United States from the Indian side of his family, and the first Sikh to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In an op-ed on chain migration, he asserted that his relatives were able to make significant contributions to society because they followed their grandfather to the US.