James Quinn hails from Spokane, Washington, one time home of David Lynch and every bit as unsettling. In his 25 years in library work he has had many strange dreams, none quite so strange as the one where Jesus came to work at the reference desk. There was a power failure, but everything was O.K. because the students could read by the mystic blue glow emanating from his body. It was also handy that he could answer one question at the desk while simultaneously demonstrating some arcane point of legal research to another student in the stacks. James has had many encounters with library patrons during waking hours that were at least as bizarre, but few have matched the Jesus dream for sheer poetic inspiration.

He took two years off from library work in the 90's to be a full time anti-nuclear activist in Las Vegas, before signing on to help organize the law library at UNLV, the first state-funded law school in the history of Nevada. He now lives with his wife and five cats just outside the city limits of Chicago, where he stamps out books at a university library much as he did as a student employee in 1977. He believes he might enjoy skydiving and deep sea fishing if he were not a vegetarian and miserably afraid of heights.

You can visit his strange and nearly hallucinatory world at his weblog, The Weird Circle of Life.