Jim Fitzmaurice is a retired academic, who was born in Ventura California and who went to college in the greater Los Angeles area - first based in Eagle Rock and then in Long Beach. He lived in Iowa City while a graduate student and returned to the Southwest to take up a position teaching at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He retired in 2008, and now lives in Sheffield, UK. In addition to writing plays and screenplays, he is active in the International Margaret Cavendish Society and the Early Modern Women Writers Colloquium of the Othello's Island Conference.