He has been writing exclusively in English since 1993. His poetry collection Re-emerging was published by www.gattopublishing.com in 2006. James Valvis lives in Issaquah, Washington. His poems or stories have appeared in 5 AM, Confrontation, Eclectica, Glint, Pearl, Rattle, Red Fez, Slipstream, and are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Bananafish, Blip, Crab Creek Review, Gargoyle, Hanging Loose, Los Angeles Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Pank, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. A collection of his poems is forthcoming from Aortic Books.