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  <name><![CDATA[Jim McGarrah]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Jim McGarrah's poems, essays, and stories have appeared in many literary magazines over the past decade. His play, Split Second Timing, received a Kennedy Center ACTF Award in 2001. He is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Running the Voodoo Down and When the Stars Go Dark, a critically acclaimed memoir of the Vietnam War entitled A Temporary Sort of Peace and the novel Going Postal. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a finalist twice in the James Hearst Poetry Contest. Jim is also co-editor of Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana and a founding editor of RopeWalk Press.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[anyone who writes well and some who write poorly.]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>01/05/1948</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Temporary Sort of Peace]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[When the Stars Go Dark]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Going Postal]]></title>
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