Jim Nason

Jim Nason is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his poetry collection Rooster, Dog, Crow, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Raymond Souster Award in 2019.

He has also been nominated for several ReLit Awards, receiving nods in the Poetry category for Narcissus Unfolding in 2012 and Touch Anywhere to Begin in 2017, and in the Short Fiction category for The Girl on the Escalator in 2012. publishing the poetry collection The Fist of Remembering in 2006 and the novel The Housekeeping Journals, based in part on his own experiences as a caregiver, in 2007.

He became the owner and publisher of Tightrope Books in 2014.

Works Novels The Housekeeping Journals - 2007 I Thought I Would Be Happy - 2013 Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals - 2017

Short Fiction The Girl on the Escalator - 2011

Poetry If Lips Were As Red - 1991 The Fist of Remembering - 2006 Narcissus Unfolding - 2011 Music Garden - 2013 Touch Anywhere to Begin - 2016 Rooster, Dog, Crow - 2018 Blue Suitcase: Documentary Poetics - 2021 Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast - 2023