James Victor Anderson is a native of Southwestern Oregon. He was born August 24th, 1940 to the coastal towns of North Bend/Coos Bay, and grew up on the Coos Bay waterfront during the pinnacle of the lumber and fishing industries. During the late fifties he served in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corp with the XVIII Airborne, and with the Oregon National Guard’s 249th Artillery during his college years at Linfield College where he earned his BA in English/Literature and a Masters in English-Education. James served as a high school and college teacher in Oregon’s toughest logging region of Southern Douglas County, and was named five times to Who’s Who Among American Teachers.
James now lives in the relative quietness of Roseburg, Oregon with his very loving artist wife Donna Marie, who says she doesn’t understand poets but accomodates him , nevertheless. In retirement James has previously written and published two books of poetry in the Taoist perspective, titled NOT UNLIKE A MADMAN IN CHEAP SANDALS, and DANCE WITHOUT A RACK OF BONES WITHIN. He has also served as a hospice worker volunteer for Roseburg’s Mercy Hospital.
James sold his old pickup truck that he had driven for seventeen years and now lives as a self supporting Taoist bum. Smile comes from inside.