James Claffey is a native son of County Westmeath, Ireland. He lives on an avocado ranch in Carpinteria, CA, with his wife, the writer and artist,
Maureen Foley, and their Australian cattle-dog, Rua. His work has appeared in the Molotov Cocktail, Everydayotherthings, the Toronto Quarterly, Cobalt Review, the Shady Side Review, CaKe, a journal of poetry and art, The Bicycle Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly, A Bad Penny Review, and is forthcoming in the Artichoke Haircut, Thrice Magazine, the New Orleans Review, and Palooka Journal. “The Motion of Souls” was a finalist in the 2011 Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress competition. He writes at www.jamesclaffey.com and contributes to the Nervous Breakdown.
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