James Wade
James Wade was awarded the 2026 Dobie Paisano Fellow from the University of Texas at Austin, the 2026 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, and is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. He also received the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award, and his debut novel, All Things Left Wild, was listed as one of the most influential Westerns of the twenty-first century. Beasts of the Earth was named a Best Book of 2022 by both Deep South Magazine and The Southern Review of Books. James is a four-time finalist for the Austin Chronicle’s Best Writer in Austin award, and his nonfiction work has appeared in Texas Highways and Writer’s Digest, among others. James was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2026. He lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children.
