Jim Nelson's work has been published in Confrontation, We Still Like, North American Review, Instant City, Cosmopsis Quarterly, The Loin's Mouth, Switchback, SmokeLong Quarterly, Watchword, Transfer, Red Wheelbarrow and other fine literary venues. Awards include Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Competiton, First Prize in the Clark College Fiction Contest, and a Webby nomination for his now-abandoned webzine Ad Nauseam. He's a prior Fiction Editor for Transfer and the former Web Director for Parthenon West Review. Today he's a member-in-good standing of the Drunken Goats Writing Group and a Floundering Skeptician of the Flat Earth Collective.

His audio tour and accompanying book Everywhere Man was published in October 2011.