About the Teacher

Mr. James Mulhern has been teaching for thirty-three years in a variety of settings--college, high school, middle school, at-risk, and alternative environments. He has taught English, Writing, Math, History, Science, and a job skills course. Mr. Mulhern has editorial experience working for Houghton Mifflin Company (textbooks and The American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition) and Ploughshares, a literary magazine, both based in Boston. He also worked for National Evaluation Systems, a teacher test publisher in Amherst, Massachusetts, and for Clark Boardman Callaghan, a law publishing house in New York City.

He was employed in the healthcare arena (unit management positions) for over ten years in New York, Massachusetts, and California. A few of the medical facilities where he worked include The Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, as well as St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California.


He taught writing and literature at Emerson College in Boston. Currently, he is on staff as adjunct faculty at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale. 
Mr. Mulhern was an AP Exam Consultant and Teacher Mentor for the National Math and Science Initiative (2012-2020); he was also a Reader for the Advanced Placement English Exam (College Board) from 2011 through 2019. In addition, he works as a freelance editor, publisher, writer, and web curator. 

His writing has been accepted for publication in literary journals and anthologies over two hundred times (fiction, nonfiction, poetry). Almost one hundred publications (electronic and print) are available on Amazon.com. In 2013, he was chosen as a finalist for the Tuscany Prize in Catholic Fiction. In 2015, Mr. Mulhern was awarded a fully paid writing fellowship to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. That same year, one of his stories was longlisted for Ireland's prestigious Fish Short Story Prize. Two other short stories received Honorable Mentions for the Short Story America Prize. His novel Molly Bonamici is a Readers' Favorite and was Runner-Up for a book competition sponsored by a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Both the novel and his collection of short stories, Assumptions and Other Stories, received positive critiques from Kirkus Reviews. In 2016, he was one of two Runner-Ups for the United Kingdom's InkTears Short Story Contest. In 2018, his short stories were published in three literary collections. Additional short stories and poetry will appear in anthologies and journals through 2023. A story was considered among the best to appear on the Internet over the past twenty years and published in Best of Fiction on the Web (March 2018). In 2017, Mr. Mulhern was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Fiction.

His most recent novel, Give Them Unquiet Dreams, is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner and a Notable Best Indie Book of 2019. The novel received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. The Kirkus Star is awarded to books of "exceptional merit" and is considered "one of the most prestigious designations in the book industry." Give Them Unquiet Dreams was nominated for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction and was featured at the Miami Book Fair International in November 2019. The novel was also named "One of the Best Books of 2019" by Kirkus Reviews.

A Few Published Poems from The Galway Review Literary Magazine:

https://thegalwayreview.com/2020/01/17/james-mulhern-piano/ 
 
https://thegalwayreview.com/2020/01/13/james-mulhern-brother/ 

https://thegalwayreview.com/2019/12/21/james-mulhern-catherine/ 

https://thegalwayreview.com/2019/12/07/james-mulhern-the-crosswalk/ 

A Few Published Stories: 

https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2016/08/keep-calm-and-carry-on-by-james-mulhern.html

https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2015/11/assumptions-by-james-mulhern.html

http://writingdisorder.com/james-mulhern/

https://boomerlitmag.com/james-mulhern/

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of his publications are donated to a variety of charities and a yearly scholarship for students at Atlantic Technical College High School.