YA & middle grade author
About James Eldridge
Raised in Hawaiʻi, James served as an Air Force medic for six years. He is now an industrial project manager and lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife and five children.
In 2021, James nearly died of COVID. He spent forty-five days on a ventilator in the ICU and went through multiple blood transfusions, several life-saving surgeries and, later, several vocal cord surgeries. His road to recovery was both mentally and physically challenging, and he took to writing to help put the nightmare behind him.
He has since published the YA novel Hounds of War and the award-winning middle grade series The Pacific Chronicles, and created the free strategy game Musubi War.
The places I write from
I grew up playing in bamboo forts built high above the tropical forest floor, swimming in lava tubes that turned the water black, and exploring munitions bunkers on Hickam Air Force Base. My uncle taught me to surf at eight years old by standing me up with him on his longboard mid-wave on the North Shore.
As a teenager, my friends and I roamed the shallow-water mangroves of the Pearl Harbor canal, getting footage of sharks, eels and sea urchins. At night, when the tide was out and the moon was bright, we would walk, run and fight on the seemingly limitless sandbar, covered in a thin layer of ocean water just above our ankles.
These are the places from which I write.