James D. Dilworth has been involved in many artistic and creative endeavors
throughout his life. James has a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate, attended
the University of Nevada, Reno, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in
English Literature and a Master’s Degree in Education from Sierra Nevada
College, and a Doktorate of the Forbidden Sciences from the
Church of the SubGenius. He currently teaches English and Drama in
Public Schools and also works as a freelance writer, editor, and tutor.
Music is his first love and he sings and plays the Alto, Soprano and Tenor
Saxophones, Guitar, Piano and Flute. James is a writer of poetry, translations
of French poetry and prose, short stories, essays, novels, screenplays
and stage plays and has been published in several publications and
publishes a literary ‘zine called Non- Creative Garbage. James has been
involved with several theatrical and dramatic arts companies, and recently
has written directed, and produced his own films, which have entered
competitions and have been chosen as final selections. As a visual
artist, James has staged performance art exhibitions at the NADAdada
Art Show in Reno, Nevada for several years, using manual typewriters to
create poetry, stories, and rants by suggestions from his audience.
James enjoys movies foreign and domestic, books ancient and modern,
glorious food, all kinds of music and concerts, art museums and the people
in them, the San Francisco Giants and good baseball games, bike riding
and exercising, swimming with the sharks in the deep end, travel and
travail, holiday snaps (wink, wink), driving at night and listening to AM
Radio, the Internets, long walks off of a short beach and playing Solitaire
all night in the dark. You can visit his websites at
or noncreativegarbage.org.
