Born and raised in Wisconsin, Jim Schley moved to New England in the mid-1970s to attend Dartmouth College, where he majored in Creative Writing and Native American Studies. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers and for many years worked as a literary editor and toured extensively with experimental and activist theater companies, including the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater, the Swiss ensemble Les Montreurs d'Images, and Flock Dance Troupe. He is former co-editor of NEW ENGLAND REVIEW and editor of the anthology WRITING IN A NUCLEAR AGE (University Press of New England, 1994) and of more than a hundred books on a diversity of subjects. After a sudden change of fortune he became an extreme freelancer and had twenty-four part-time jobs in one year, an experience described in an essay written for NEWSWEEK magazine. His poems and essays have also been featured in POETRY INTERNATIONAL, ORION, MOTHER EARTH NEWS, SEVEN DAYS, IMAGE, NORTHERN WOODLANDS, IRONWOOD, CRAZYHORSE, and RIVENDELL, on Garrison Keillor's radio show "The Writer's Almanac," in BEST AMERICAN SPIRITUAL WRITING 2002, and in a chapbook, ONE ANOTHER (Chapiteau, 1999). From 2006 through 2008 he was executive director of The Frost Place, a museum and poetry center based at Robert Frost's historic farm in Franconia, New Hampshire. He is now Managing Editor of the literary book publisher TUPELO PRESS and he teaches writing to adult students for Community College of Vermont. He is also an associate member of the journalists' collective Homelands Productions. Jim lives with his wife and their daughter in a house they built themselves on an off-the-grid cooperative in Vermont, and his newest publication is a full-length book of poems: AS WHEN, IN SEASON (Marick Press, 2008).