Jim Gunshinan
Jim is a versatile and experienced writer and editor of nonfiction and creative nonfiction works. He blogs about and has published articles about green home building and renovation, energy, the environment, and Climate Change. He has also published articles on science and spirituality, personal essays, and poetry.
Jim combines analytical skills with coaching and writing skills. He is comfortable working one-on-one with aspiring or new writers and has participated as a student and teacher in poetry, creative nonfiction, improvstorytelling, and memoir workshops.
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BIO
Jim Gunshinan has a BS in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Notre Dame and an MS in Bioengineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he researched the artificial heart. He was a varsity fencer at Notre Dame and served as an assistant fencing coach at Penn State. He entered the seminary at Notre Dame in 1983 and, after earning a Master of Divinity degree, was ordained a Catholic priest in 1989. Jim ministered for ten years, first in a parish in South Bend, Indiana, and then as a campus minister at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. He left the priesthood in 1999, and for the next twenty years, was the managing editor of Home Energy, a magazine that coves residential energy efficiency, health, sustainability, and affordability.
He is now a freelance writer living in Walnut Creek, California, with his wife Michele and their dog, Cooper. He writes about energy, the environment, green building, sustainable living, personal essays, and creative nonfiction. Jim has published a chapbook of poems, What the Body Wants, and Remember, a poetry collection. He is currently working on a memoir.