James Stoddard

James Stoddard is an American fantasy author. He lives in West Texas, United States, where he is also a music recording and engineering instructor. Stoddard's first published short story, The Perfect Day, was penned under the name James Turpin and appeared in Amazing Stories in 1985. Stoddard won the 1999 Compton Crook Award for his novel The High House. The book was also nominated for the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, placed in the top ten of the Locus Best First Novels of 1999, and was nominated for the Crawford Award by the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts. In 2018 he was one of five judges of the prestigious Philip K. Dick awards.