Jim Tushinski is a filmmaker and fiction writer living in Southern California.

Jim's short video, Jan-Michael Vincent is My Muse (2002), which he wrote and directed, has been screened at over 30 film festivals around the world from Austin, Texas to Wellington, New Zealand. Conceived as an exercise in pop culture appropriation, the video combines pirated video and music with paper cutout animation to tell the goofy tale of pre-adolescent same-sex celebrity worship.

Jim's first feature is the documentary, That Man: Peter Berlin, which recounts the story of the man called "the Greta Garbo of gay porn," the legendary photographer, filmmaker, and model Peter Berlin.

Van Allen's Ecstasy (Harrington Park Press, 2004), Jim's first novel, was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the ISO Violet Quill Award. He is the co-editor (with Jim Van Buskirk) of the nonfiction anthology Identity Envy (Harrington Park Press, 2007).