James K. Zimmerman's work appears in American Life in Poetry, Chicago Quarterly Review, december, Folio, Lumina, Nimrod, Pleiades, Rattle, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is author of three published volumes of poetry – most recently “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen” – and the forthcoming “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread”. He values his neurodivergence as an essential foundation of his creative inspiration.