Jim Zervanos is the author of the novel "LOVE Park" and the memoirs "Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z" and "That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story." His award-winning short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Bucknell University, where he won the William Bucknell Prize for English and was an Academic All-American baseball player. He teaches at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and two sons and has risen in the baseball pantheon as coach of two Little League teams.