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Monday, April 23, 2012
BIO:
James O'Brien‘s fiction is forthcoming in Bacopa Literary Review, Mixer, and Margin Walker. His poetry is forthcoming in The Bicycle Review. In 2012, his poem 'first they get distracted' was a finalist in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry prize. In 2011, his short story "Bing Red" won second prize in The Pinch's Literary Awards, he was a finalist for the Fulton Prize in Short Fiction and also the Santa Fe Writers Project Poetry Awards, and he was named a Writing Fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston.
James O’Brien holds a Ph.D. from the Editorial Institute at Boston University, where he researched Bob Dylan's other-than-song writings — focusing on unpublished works and those writings given only limited distribution. His dissertation adviser was Christopher Ricks. His work on a previously unknown early recording of "Talkin' World War III Blues" appeared in the winter 2011 issue of ISIS (No. 159). O'Brien has presented on Dylan's poetry, as well as Dylan in film, in the U.S., the UK, and Canada.
In addition to reporting and writing as a news and features correspondent for The Boston Globe and Boston University's Research magazine, O'Brien blogs for numerous clients on topics that include: film, social media, technology, marketing, business, and design.
