Tim Gilmore Explained

Tim Gilmore is an English professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) and an author. He founded the JaxbyJax Literary Arts festival and posts on his website Jaxpsychogeo.com.^[1] He has written poetry, fiction, and non-fiction books on subjects including the history of Jacksonville, Eartha White,^[2] violent crime, island squatter Rollians Christopher, Virginia King, and Ottis Toole.

He conducted a phone interview of Ku Klux Klan bombing survivor and author Donal Godfrey.

He is married to fellow FSCJ English professor Jo Carlisle and has two daughters.^[2]

Tim Gilmore has two websites, jaxpsychogeo.comand tim-gilmore.com.

Books

• Ghost Story / Love Song: A Collection Of Clues
• Discarded Windows: Scenes Dreamt In Old Glass
• Flights of Crows, Poems, 2002-2006
• Fear, No More
• This Kind of City: Ghost Stories and Psychological Landscapes
• Murder Capital, 8 Stories 1890s - 1980s^[3]
• Channeling Anna Fletcher; a nonfiction novel
• Repossessions: Mass Shootings in Baymeadows
• Goat Island Hermit; The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher
• Central Florida Schizophrenia (Everything Buried Will Rise)
• The Ocean Highway At Night
• Ghost Compost: Strange Little Stories^[4]

Fiction

• The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard

Non-fiction

• The Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray's Unholy Trinity
• In Search of Eartha White: Storehouse for the People
• The Mad Atlas of Virginia King
• Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic, he also adapted it as a play and it was staged at FSCJ^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lit Chat With Tim Gilmore. October 8, 2020. Jacksonville Public Library.
2. Web site: One of Us: FSCJ professor Tim Gilmore has written a new biography of Eartha White. Staff Writer. The Florida Times-Union.
3. Web site: Tim Gilmore's new book chronicles FL's 'Murder Capital'. Bill. Delaney. www.thejaxsonmag.com.
4. Web site: LibGuides: Faculty Authors: Florida State College at Jacksonville: G. Madeline. Sims. guides.fscj.edu.
5. Web site: Tim Gilmore brings the 'Mad Atlas' to the stage. Article by Bill. Delaney. www.thejaxsonmag.com.