Poet, Fiction Writer
Munggu,
BA
Indonesia
Bali ID
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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
, , , Bewildering Stories
, Big Pulp
, , Book of Matches
, , , Crate
, Diverse Voices Quarterly
, Down in the Dirt
, Eclectica
, Extract(s)
, Festival Writer
, Ignavia
, , Lothlorien Poetry Journal
, Marathon Literary Review
, Newtown Literary
, Pilcrow & Dagger
, Revolution House
, Siren
, The Fear of Monkeys
, The Outrider Review
, , Unlikely Stories Mark V
Poetry
Anthologies:
Come Sail Away (Fifth Wheel Press, 2023)
, 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
, , Brave Voices Magazine
, Burrow
, Caesura
, Chaleur Magazine
, , Constellations
, Damfino Journal
, Discretionary Love
, , Drifting Sands
, , , Festival Writer
, Fevers of the Mind
, Firewords
, Fragments
, , , , High Shelf Press
, , Impspired
, Isele Magazine
, Italian Americana
, , Last Leaves Magazine
, Linden Avenue Literary Journal
, MacQueen’s Quinterly
, Maintenant
, , Months To Years
, , , , Off the Rocks
, , Panoply
, Paper Dragon
, Perspectives
, Plum Tree Tavern
, Postcard Poems and Prose
, Primer
, , Red Earth Review
, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
, , Spillway
, Storie
, Surreal Poetics
, The New York Times
, The Skinny Poetry Journal
, The Wanderlust Review
, , Third Wednesday
, , Versification
, , Zingara Poet
Prizes won:
Although James Penha is primarily a poet (whose collection No Bones To Carry won the 2007 New Sins Press Editors' Prize), his fiction as well as his prose adaptations of Indonesian and other 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. He has been a finalist in the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Contests.
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Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with:
Any
Born in:
New York City,
NY
New York
Raised in:
New York City,
NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024