James Hanna wandered Australia for seven years before settling on a career in criminal justice. He spent twenty years as a counselor in the Indiana Department of Corrections and is presently a probation officer in San Francisco.

His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Old Crow Review, The Saint Andrews Review, Edge City Review, Fault Zone, Eclipse, and The Sand Hill Review, where he is the current Fiction Editor. Two of these stories were nominated for The Pushcart Prize.

James has recently completed his third novel, The Siege, which depicts a riot in an Indiana penal facility. He is looking for author representation.

Contact: james@willwriteforfood.org