James D. McCallister is the author of five novels—KING’S HIGHWAY (2007), FELLOW TRAVELER (2012), LET THE GLORY PASS AWAY (2017), DOGS OF PARSONS HOLLOW (2018), and DIXIANA (2019)—as well as a short story collection, THE YEAR THEY CANCELED CHRISTMAS. His published work also includes creative nonfiction, magazine features, a newspaper column, and scholarly articles.

McCallister is a past winner or finalist for awards from the South Carolina Writer’s Association, SC Fiction Project, Pearl Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post and The Jasper Project, with DIXIANA named as a finalist for the 2015 Faulkner Society Novel Award. McCallister’s papers relating to FELLOW TRAVELER were requested in 2014 by the University of California–Santa Cruz for inclusion in the academic Grateful Dead Archive.