James Harms is the author of seven collections of poetry, Comet Scar, After West, Freeways and Aqueducts, Quarters, The Joy Addict and Modern Ocean (all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press), and What to Borrow, What to Steal (Marick Press), as well as a limited fine press edition, East of Avalon. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and fellowships from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Arts Commissions. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The American Poetry Review, Oxford American, Quarterly West, Crazyhorse, West Branch, Verse, Shenandoah and many other journals. He was the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University, where he is currently a Professor of English. James Harms lives in Morgantown, West Virginia with his family.