James W. Gaynor

James W. Gaynor, co-publisher, is a writer, editor, found-object sculptor, origami enthusiast, haiku poet and educator. Prior to his retirement from the corporate world, he was the EY’s Global Verbal Identity Leader.
His written work includes essays, reviews and poems in The NY Observer, the Gay and Lesbian Review/ Worldwide and The Good Men Project. He is the author of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in 61 Haiku (introduction by Nola Saint James), I’ll Miss You Later (a memoir of the AIDS epidemic in NYC) and the subject of a documentary film to be released in 2026.) Other books include 40 Inappropriate Poems for Weddings + Funerals (introductions by Nola Saint James and Rabbi Dr. Jo David) and Pinfeather’s newly released Breaking Up on X :20 Poems for a Nation in Crisis.