Jim Savio is a carpenter by trade, a writer, and a teacher. After twenty-five years of designing, building and renovating homes he received an MA in Creative Writing from CCNY and began teaching at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Worker Education at the City College of New York.

His collection of short fiction The Fairy Flag and Other Stories was published in 2001, and his essays and short stories have appeared in literary journals and periodicals. He is currently working on a novel about a healer titled What We Did and a collection of personal essays, Magic Bus.

For the past seven years Jim has taught in the Writing Program at New York University, Abu Dhabi and was affiliated with the Literature and Creative Writing Program there. At NYUAD he also worked in Athletics as a certified hatha yoga instructor, and developed a physical education course that introduced students to yoga tradition and meditation.

In 2014 he began working in film. He co-wrote and directed a hybrid memoir/documentary, Home Sick, with his wife Joanne Savio, and wrote and directed a short narrative film, Tabiib, about a psychotherapist haunted by the stories of his patients. In 2018 he collaborated with two colleagues on another short film, Three Short Tales of Forgiveness that looks at the complexity and necessity of that illusive virtue.

Jim is also a song writer, and a licensed hiking and boating guide in the state of New York.