Jim Williams was born and raised in Vancouver and has lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Halifax, working at many jobs along the way, including in the asbestos mine and mill depicted in Rock Reject. He now lives in Halifax, where he and his wife, Jane Finlay-Young, divide their time between their massage therapy practices and writing.
By Jim Williams August 2012
Winner of the inaugural Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature.
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