About the author
Jim Gilkeson
A writer attentive to the visible world—and what moves beneath it.
A life in two currents
Jim Gilkeson is the author of five published books, two of which have received the Coffin Memorial Award for Non-Fiction.
His work spans memoir, short fiction and auto-fiction, creative nonfiction, energy healing, and spiritual process. Stories and articles by Jim have appeared in Memoirist Quarterly, Invisible City, 105 Meadowlark Reader, and Massage & Bodywork Magazine.
After lengthy periods in Europe and the American Wild West, he lives, now for the third time, in Lawrence, Kansas, with his partner Diane Tegtmeier.
Bibliography
Books & current work.
Energy Healing1999 · Published
A Pilgrim in Your Body2009 · Published
Three Lost Worlds2023 · Published
The Eleven Directions of Kansas2025 · Published
When Energy Healing Meets Meditation2025 · Published
Upsurge of LightExpected late 2026 · Forthcoming
Bonsai 100Work in progress · Working title