Jim Hilgartner is an American author of poetry and fiction.
He writes primarily short fiction, often composing longer stories from assembled shorter vignettes.
[1] He received his MFA from the University of Alabama.
He taught at Alabama[2] and at Alabama Southern Community College,[3] and since 2006 has been teaching English at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.
Hilgartner has twice received the Fellowship in Literature from the Alabama State Council on the Arts: in 2001 and again in 2011.