James Penha

Poet, Fiction Writer

Villa Wayan Pererenen

Munggu, BA 80361

Phone:

1-845-943-4465

Email:

penhapoet@gmail.com

Website:

jamespenha.com

Twitter:

@JamesPenha

Author's Bio

An expat New Yorker, James Penha has lived for the past 30 years in Indonesia, an archipelago and culture that has embraced and inspired him as a writer. He has been teaching creative writing and literature around the world for more than four decades; the results of his curricular innovations have been reported in books and academic journals. His latest chapbook, an ekphrastic collection of poetry based on and entitled American Daguerreotypes is available for Kindle. Penha edits the online poetry journal TheNewVerse.News.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:

Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart (Foglifter Press, 2021)

Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, (Foglifter Press, 2021)

Outside the Box (Scars Publications, 2020)

Saints + Sinners 2018 (Bold Strokes Books, 2018)

His Seed (Lethe Press, 2017)

Saints + Sinners 2017 (Bold Strokes Books, 2017)

Stuck in the Middle (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016)

Camelot in The Kennedy Curse (Exter Press, 2013)

Book:

Snakes and Angels (Cervena Barva Press, 2010)

Journals:

A Quiet Courage

About Place Journal

Anak Sastra

Bewildering Stories

Big Pulp

Blue Mountain Review

Book of Matches

Burningword Literary Journal

Columbia Journal

Crate

Diverse Voices Quarterly

Down in the Dirt

Eclectica

Extract(s)

Festival Writer

Ignavia

LONTAR

Marathon Literary Review

Newtown Literary

Pilcrow & Dagger

Revolution House

Siren

The Fear of Monkeys

The Outrider Review

Thin Air

Unlikely Stories Mark V

Poetry

Anthologies:

The Impossible Beast: Queer Erotic Poems (Damaged Goods Press, 2020)

What We Talk About When We Talk About It: Variations on the Theme of Love (Darkhouse Books, 2020)

Lovejets (Handtype Press, 2019)

The Skinny Poetry Anthology (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2019)

What Remains (Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, 2019)

Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Philosophy, Travel, and Place: Being in Transit. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

The Great Gatsby Anthology: Poetry & Prose Inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel (Silver Birch Press, 2018)

The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017)

"Despite months and miles away" in Toasts (Viva Editions, 2014)

Liberty's Vigil, The Occupy Anthology (Foothills Publishing, 2012)

Flashlight Memories (Silver Boomer Books, 2011)

Silver Boomers (Silver Boomer Books, 2008)

Can I Sit With You Too? (Deadwood City Publishing, 2008)

Freckles to Wrinkles (Silver Boomer Books, 2008)

Queer Collection (Fabulist Flash Publishing, 2007)

You Are Here: New York City Streets in Poetry (P&Q Press, 2006)

Books:

No Bones to Carry (New Sins Press, 2007)

Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2000)

Back of the Dragon (Omega Cat Press, 1992)

Journals:

A Quiet Courage

Aji Magazine

Amygdala

Between the Lines

Blast Furnace

Brave Voices Magazine

Burrow

Caesura

Chaleur Magazine

Claudius Speaks

Constellations

Damfino Journal

Discretionary Love

Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review

Ekphrasis

Ekphrastic Review

Festival Writer

Fevers of the Mind

Firewords

Fragments

High Shelf Press

Impspired

Isele Magazine

Italian Americana

J Journal: New Writing on Justice

Last Leaves Magazine

Linden Avenue Literary Journal

Mason's Road

Months To Years

Naugatuck River Review

New Verse News

New World Writing

Off the Rocks

Pacific Review

Panoply

Perspectives

Postcard Poems and Prose

Quail Bell

Red Earth Review

Scrawl Place

Spillway

Storie

Surreal Poetics

The New York Times

The Skinny Poetry Journal

The Wanderlust Review

THEMA

Third Wednesday

Up the Staircase Quarterly

Versification

Waterways

Zingara Poet

Prizes won:

Although Penha is primarily a poet (whose collection No Bones To Carry won the 2007 New Sins Press Editors' Prize), his prose adaptations of Indonesian and Asian folk tales have been widely published. A collection of these stories (Snakes and Angels) won the 2009 Cervena Barva chapbook competition. His original speculative story “By the Banyan Tree” is included in the 2018 Lambda Literary Award winning anthology His Seed.