James Reich is a novelist, essayist, and journalist, and ecopsychologist and research psychologist. He is the author of Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024), Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (Punctum Books, 2024), The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books, September 2023), The Song My Enemies Sing, Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press), I, Judas, and Bombshell (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). He is also the author of The Holly King, a limited-edition collection of poetry. His novels have been studied at North American and European universities.
James is the Archivist of The Mc Neill Burroughs Archive, preserving the work of artist Malcolm Mc Neill from his word-image collaboration with William S. Burroughs from 1970-1976, comprising more than 100 pieces of original art, and manuscripts, and ephemera.
James and his work have been published and commissioned by Literary Hub, SPIN Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, CrimeReads, Salon, Huffington Post, National Book Review, Vol.1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, International Times, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Entropy, Fiction Advocate, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, Heavy Feather Review, Poet Republik, Largehearted Boy, Sleeping Fish / Calamari Press, Shelf Awareness, Full Stop, and others.
Of Reich’s introduction to Barry N. Malzberg’s Campbell Award-winning novel Beyond Apollo, Malzberg stated: “If only all my readers were as attentive as you.”
His account of innovations in British science fiction is published by Bloomsbury in its ‘Decades’ series, The 1960s. His work has also appeared in several editions of Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology, Akashic Books’ ‘Noir’ series, and various anthologies of fiction and criticism.
James was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire in the West of England, and has been a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 2009. He was greatly influenced by early exposure to the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and by a small book on dadaism, and later by Andy Warhol, the Beats, science fiction, psychoanalysis, punk rock, and the films of Ken Russell and Nic Roeg. Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, J.G. Ballard, Anne Sexton, Paul Bowles, D.H. Lawrence, and Lars von Trier are also vital constellations in his work. He has an MA in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, and is completing his PhD in Integral Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 2015, he founded Stalking Horse Press, a critically acclaimed independent small publisher of fiction and poetry.
