The author, James Quina

James Quina mentored with playwright, Abe Polsky, Carpinteria, CA and studied short story writing with Madison Jones at Auburn University. He has published “Electricity” in the Fall isssue of Journal of College Writing and “If You Believe” in the Fall issue of SUNO Review (Southern University of New Orleans.) His poetry has appeared in The Journal of College Writing, Education Forum, and Images (Delgado Community College, New Orleans). In 1989, Harper & Row published his text: “Going Beyond the Bell Curve.” He has published critical articles on the works of Aldous Huxley in Studies in the Novel, College English, and The Journal of Holistic Education Review. On the works of Stephen C. Pepper, he has published essays in The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Paunch, Educational Theory and The Journal of Ethno-Development. In California, he edited newsletters for The Santa Barbara Kiwanis Club.

He holds a Ph.D. in English Education from University of Alabama and an MA in English from University of Southern Mississippi. He taught Curriculum for High School English at University of Georgia and Methods courses in Composition and Adolescent Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member in English at University of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara and Delgado Community College in New Orleans.

He enjoys teaching, writing poetry and short stories; hiking in the mountains, resistance training, speed cycling and yoga, fresh flowers on his table; gourmet food, good conversation on any subject; traveling, and his cats, Giddy and Zeke. Currently, he lives in New Orleans, where he is writing a sequel to The King of Cups.

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