Jim Frazee

Jim Frazee is a poet, former journalist, and author of the debut novel, ANEMONE. He has contributed to the New York Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the McClatchy newspaper group, the American Poetry Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Columbia, Seneca Review, the Iowa Review, the Montana Review, the New American Review, MSS, the Southern Poetry Review, and the Missouri Review, among others.

He has worked in the film industry in the U.S. for Paramount Pictures and repertory cinema chains, and in Scandinavia, primarily in independent film acquisition, development, financing, and production.

At eighteen, he studied classical guitar with Segovia-protégé, José Tomás, in Alicante, Spain, and later with Robert Guthrie, in Dallas, Texas.

He grew up in Southern California, began surfing in 1963, and now lives with his wife in Oslo, Norway.