James Irwin is a writer and media artist living in northern New Jersey. Publications include Brevity, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bay to Ocean Journal, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Smoky Blue Literary & Arts Magazine, and Big Windows Review. He has received awards from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, Gotham Writers Workshop, Rockefeller Foundation, and others. His post on this blog grew out of a course on disability representation in media and literature he teaches in the disability studies program at Wm. Paterson University. Find him at jrirwin.com.
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