Jim Provenzano (born December 6, 1961) is an American author, playwright, photographer and currently an editor with the Bay Area Reporter.

Born in Queens, New York, Provenzano was raised in Ashland, Ohio and attended Kent State University from 1979–80 as a theater major, a summer internship at Porthouse Theatre in Akron, where he performed the title role in a 1980 production of The Who's musical Tommy.

He also directed two Sam Shepard plays, Cowboy Mouth and Action as well as original performance works, in his rented expansive loft with theater seats.

With a fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, he wrote, composed and set-designed the musical, Under the River, set in the World Trade Center's PATH station.

In 1989 he began working as the publisher's assistant for OutWeek magazine and also contributed his first news and arts stories for editors Michelangelo Signorile, Sarah Pettit, and Gabriel Rotello.

He also wrote freelance arts features for Frontiers, The Advocate, High Performance and San Francisco Sentinel, including interviews with Clive Barker, Chita Rivera, and Paul Bartel.

In 1996 then-Bay Area Reporter editor Mike Salinas asked him to write a sports column to cover the LGBT athletics community.

The book was included in more than a dozen college reading lists, and remained among the top ten bestselling gay fiction titles in 2000.

The expansive novel is the faux-memoir of gay film director Stan Grozniak, who reconnects with Lance, his teenage crush from a 1970s summer theatre production of the musical Gypsy.

Through 2021, as part of the Bay Area Reporters 50th anniversary celebrations, he produced and hosted twelve monthly panels about the history of the newspaper, with dozens of current and former writers, editors, photographers and special guests.

In May 2022, he edited and self-published The Lost of New York, a novel written more than 50 years ago by his late uncle, John "Butch" Rigney, Jr.