James E. Allman, Jr. holds degrees in biology and business, has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and has poetry in, or forthcoming from, 'Black Warrior Review', 'The Literary Review', 'Nimrod', 'Phoebe', 'Prairie Schooner', 'Sugar House Review', and 'Third Coast', among others. He’s written reviews for 'Rattle' as well as other journals, and is the co-founder of an artist community called Continuum.