James Valvis

James Valvis is a writer whose poetry and short fiction have appeared in many literary journals, including Ploughshares, River Styx, Barrow Street, and Daily Science Fiction. He has a poetry collection, How to Say Goodbye, published by Aortic Books. He is a former US Army soldier who lives near Seattle. His work has been featured in Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry website, and he has received Pushcart Prize nominations. Blue Lake Review published his story "Big Alabama and the New Girl" in November 2010 and nominated it for a Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.