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Jim Trainor is the author of eight books. He is a PhD physicist and formerly Deputy Division Director for Physics for the nation’s largest physics department (Los Alamos National Laboratory). He is also an ordained Episcopal priest.
Jim wrote his first novel when he was five. It was a mystery story with a surprise ending, well at least as surprising as a five-year-old mind can conjure up. It was written in pencil and was three pages long. His mother kept it among her treasures until her dying day.
It would be many years later before he would write his second novel. Jim grew up in Los Angeles, where he studied physics in college, then got his doctorate at the Univ. of California– a far cry from novel writing, well maybe – then headed off to his first real job at the Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. Over the next two decades he lived in the world of experimental physics, and his profession would take him back to California, then to Los Alamos, New Mexico. His love for writing found its way into over seventy scientific articles in physics journals.
Things were going well in Jim's physics career, but then he was called to become an Episcopal priest. As he served in parishes in New Mexico, Texas and Wisconsin, he was often asked how someone trained in a field so rational, analytical and solid as physics could embrace something so intuitive, fuzzy and ancient as religion. For years, he had already been pondering that question, and the answer can be found in his first book, a nonfiction work: Grasp: Making Sense of Science and Spirituality (2010).
Now he's written seven novels (not including that masterpiece when he was five). His latest novel is Heart of Rocks (2026), a thriller with a heart; Mail Girl (2021), a story of risk-taking, danger and love; 68 (2018), a wild tour into parallel universes; The Mountain Goat (2017); Up North (2014); The Sand People (2013); and Waverly's Universe (2012).
He and his wife Mary can often be found with their hound dog, Clyde, traveling the backroads of the nation in their campervan. They have three grown children.
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