James Calemine

A prolific author of essays, interviews and signature dispatches for over 30 years, James Calemine's writing has been featured in The Bitter Southerner, South Magazine, Georgia Trend, Paste, Swampland and many other publications. Calemine has published five full-length books on Snake Nation Press, including his latest release, Ghostland America, featuring his short stories and color photographs of vintage cars, signs, dirt roads, restaurants, churches, motels, coastal ruins and other landscapes of rural America.

Calemine's other books include Insured Beyond The Grave, Insured Beyond The Grave Vol. 2, The Local Stranger and The Road to Hell. His close-to-the-bone writing (fiction & nonfiction) style hypnotizes the reader. His essay about the Georgia Sea Island Singers earned a place in the Smithsonian's "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots" tour. Calemine was also commissioned to write the Athens, Georgia, band Widespread Panic's induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

A talented photographer with a unique vision that complements and enhances the gritty realism of his literary voice, Calemine's Leica camera is never far from reach. South Magazine named Calemine one of the "Eleven of the Greatest Photographers in the South" in 2017. Calemine also contributed to BBC America.

The late Daniel Hutchens once wrote about Calemine: "I'll go ahead and say it: He's one of our great living American writers, and that's a sure bet."