Jim McGarrah
Jim McGarrah teaches creative writing, composition, and a LIBA course on Vietnam at the University of Southern Indiana. He is the poetry editor of SIR and founder, along with Ron Mitchell, Matthew Graham, and Tom Wilhelmus, of RopeWalk Press. He co-directs the RopeWalk Reading Series for the university, as well as being on the permanent staff of the annual RopeWalk Writers Retreat. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in many literary magazines, including most recently Connecticut Review, Cedar Hill Review, Elixir, and North American Review. He has also translated for international journals such as Pagitica and Blesok (Shine). McGarrah's edited anthology, Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana, was published in August, 2006. His memoir about his experiences in Vietnam, A Temporary Sort of Peace, will be published by Indiana Historical Society Press in January, 2008. He is currently working on his second collection of poems.
For more on Jim McGarrah see his web site at Southern Indiana University and his poem "Hearing the First Music" in the Connecticut Review.
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