bio (04/27/09)
Jim Coppoc is an award-winning writer, teacher and performer; author of two books and three chapbooks of poetry, a blended-genre lyric memoir, and several plays; editor of Second Run Magazine (http://www.secondrun.org/); Owner/Director of Ames Artspace; and a Lecturer both in the English Department at Iowa State University and in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Chatham University. Coppoc lives in Ames, Iowa and wherever he happens to be on tour.