Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after leaving a rewarding career in public health research. With a graduate degree from Howard University, since retiring he's published nonfiction, poetry, and photography in nearly 150 journals and anthologies on four continents. Publications include 580 Split, Bombay Gin, Columbia Journal, Lunch Ticket, The Atlantic, The Manchester Review, and Typehouse, with Hippocampus forthcoming, . Recent photo essays include Barren, Kestrel, Ilanot Review, Litro, New World Writing, Roanoke Review, So It Goes, and Wordpeace. Jim and his wife—parents of two health professionals on the front lines and grandparents of five preschoolers—split their time between city and mountains.