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Jim C. Hines (born April 1974) is an American fantasy writer. He was a first-place winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award in 1998 with his story "Blade of the Bunny". He is the author of the Goblin Quest fantasy trilogy, comprising Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War. He also edited the anthology Heroes in Training with Martin H. Greenberg. He is published by DAW Books, and his most recent books have appeared on the Locus Bestseller list.

He was a volunteer crisis counselor in East Lansing for a while, and also worked as the Male Outreach Coordinator for MSU Safe Place. He is the author of one non-fantasy novel, Goldfish Dreams, described on the author's website as a "mainstream rape-awareness novel". He currently lives in Michigan, where he works for state government.

In 2008, he donated his archive to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. He is scheduled to be the author guest of honor at the Iowa Science Fiction Convention (ICON) in 2009.

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