James Howard Hill Jr. is a writer, educator, and artist devoted to staying with the questions that refuse quick answers. His life and work are shaped by a commitment to depth over speed, and to forms of study and art that honor memory, mystery, and repair.

A professor of religion, culture, and African American and Black Diaspora Studies, Hill has carried the titles and markers of academic success without allowing them to determine the pace or posture of his life. His work belongs to a lineage of thinkers and makers who understand thinking as a way of inhabiting the world, and art as a practice of care.

Grounded in family life, community, and a deep attentiveness to the natural world, Hill approaches writing, teaching, and art-making as ways of listening more carefully to what life is asking. He lives as a Black man who is neurodivergent, with ADHD and C-PTSD, and names these realities as sources of insight that have taught him gentler rhythms and deeper honesty.

Across his work, Hill seeks a more faithful way of living and laboring, one that refuses to separate lingering from justice, or interior life from collective healing.