James K Dill

James K. Dill lives in historic Richmond, Virginia with his wife, children and grandchildren. When not writing, he is a nonprofit fundraising executive after a long career in trust banking. James recieved his BS degree from East Carolina University where he ran track and cross country for the Pirates. He received his MBA from Wake Forest University.

Jim's marathons included Bethel (NC), Marine Corps (Washington, DC), Skylon (Buffalo, NY), Rocket City (Huntsville, AL), San Francisco, Boston, New York, Grandma's (Flint, MI), Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada), Frankfurt (West Germany), Milwaukee Lakefront, Baltimore, Bermuda, and 1984 Olympic Trials Marathon. James ran professionally for Converse Shoe Company from 1981 to 1985.

Racing Shadows is James first novel; a story formed over many miles exploring the athlete's passion, competitiveness, compulsion and obsession in the novel form. Malone Ridge (December 2022) follows a young woman's journey from the mountains of West Virginia to Alexandria, Virginia where she finds friendship, love, and destiny as she picks up her high school running tallent, making choices that cahnge her life, home and family circumstances. James is working on a new novel, tentativley titled Monumental Questions and focusing on the social struggles of 2020 in Richmond, Virginia around its civil war monuments.