Jim McGarrah’s poems, essays, and stories appear frequently in literary journals such as Bayou Magazine, Breakwater, Cincinnati Review, Chamber Four, Connecticut Review, and North American Review, among others. He is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Running the Voodoo Down ( Elixir Press, 2003) and When the Stars Go Dark ( Main Street Rag Select Poetry Series, 2009) and a new collection of poems, Breakfast at Denny’s (Ink Brush Press, 2013). His memoir of war entitled A Temporary Sort of Peace (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007) won the national Eric Hoffer Legacy Non-Fiction Award, and the nonfiction book The End of an Era was published by Ink Brush Press in 2011. McGarrah has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a finalist twice in the James Hearst Poetry Contest. He is editor, along with Tom Watson, of the anthology Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana.