Reared by traveling evangelists, James Pumpelly's sheltered years were a moth-swarm of questions and quandaries, until he was finally enlightened by life at a university. Before college, he was homeschooled, due to his parents' constant travel. As an adult, he calls home by many names: Texas, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Louisiana, among them. Pumpelly has been writing since the mid-seventies. His poetry and short stories reflect the uniqueness of station and local. When he's not writing, his hobbies include reading, cooking, gardening, and piano (the latter being one of his college majors). Pumpelly has stumbled through the fifty states and much of Europe and Asia, gathering impressions for his narrative. As the journey lengthens and the destination seems never nearer, he's accepted that the journey IS, in fact, the destination.
