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James Sprouse

James Sprouse’s work has appeared in Abraxis, Cincinnati Poetry Review, New Delta Review, Puckerbrush Review, and Wisconsin Review. He is the author of the chapbook Methane (1972, Stonemarrow Press), and his stories have been finalists in three Glimmer Train contests, including recognition as one of the Top 25 finalists in the 2007 Glimmer Train Family Matters competition, and semifinalists in two New Millennium Writers competitions. He is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. Mr. Sprouse has worked as a logger in British Columbia, a tree planter in Oregon, a cannery worker in Alaska, as well as a heavy equipment operator, semi truck driver, commercial fisherman, fruit picker, and bartender. He has ridden freight trains in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, hitchhiked to nearly every state in the U.S., to Mexico, and across Canada. In the mid-eighties he traveled to Delhi and Rajasthan, India, (“to seek enlightenment”) but almost died of malaria. He is currently employed by the Veterans Administration Hospital in Togus, Maine.