James Brittain was born just outside Chicago. He received his Bachelors in English Literature from San Francisco State University, and an Associates in Applied Science in Film Production from the Oklahoma City Community College. His Poetry has appeared in The Homestead Review and the Prism Quarterly, among other publications. He is also an accomplished, if very independent and strange, film maker, his films having been selected for the South Texas Underground Film Festival and the Bare Bones Script to Screen festival.