James Reich
James Reich is an ecopsychologist, writer, and educator. He is the author of the novels The Moth for the Star (forthcoming, 2023) The Song My Enemies Sing (December 2018), Soft Invasions (December 2017), Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (March 2016), Bombshell (July 2013) and I, Judas (October 2011) published by Anti-Oedipus Press and Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. His work has been published by Salon, The Believer, The Rumpus, Entropy, Sensitive Skin, International Times, and other magazines. James writing has been anthologized in Akashic’s Noir series, Sensitive Skin’s Selected Writing 2016-2018, and multiple issues of Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology. His account of the New Wave of British science fiction appears in Bloomsbury Publishing’s Decades series: The 1960s.
Anti-Oedipus Press will publish his study Ego & Extinction: Ecopsychology & Science Fiction in 2023, and he is completing two further works in the discipline. James completed his graduate work at Naropa University, with a thesis concentration on Wilhelm Reich and the potential for the integration of his work in the field. He holds a Master’s Degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, Boulder CO, and a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature with History of Art from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and teaches in Santa Fe, NM. He is the former Chair of Creative Writing and Literature at both Santa Fe University of Art and Design and New Mexico School for the Arts. James was born in England in 1971, and has been a resident of the US since 2009.
