James Hanna wandered Australia for seven years before settling on a career in criminal justice. He spend twenty years as a counselor in the Indiana Department of Correction and another fourteen years as a San Francisco probation officer. As a probation officer, he was assigned to a domestic violence and stalking unit.

James' familiarity with the fringe elements of society has provided fodder for his award-winning books.  His debut novel, The Siege, depicts a hostage standoff in a penal facility; his book, Call Me Pomeroy, chronicles the madcap adventures of a street musician on parole who seeks fame by joining the Occupy Oakland Movement of 2011; and his novellas, The Ping-Pong Champion of Chinatown and Lights Out Lizzie, follow the wild misadventures of Gertie McDowell, a naif from backwoods Kentucky. James is also the author of many short stories that have been published in journals that like cutting-edge stories. Most of these stories have been consolidated in his anthologies: A Second Less-Capable Head and Other Rogue Stories, Shackles and More Gripping Tales, and Fact Check and More Probing Tales. His stories vary from the weirdly sci-fi to the equally bizarre world of the human comedy.

James books have won numerous awards, including the Global Book Award gold medal for contemporary fiction.

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