James Harms

James Harms is the author of nine collections of poetry, Rowing with Wings, 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 (Caddis Case Press). His poetry chapbooks include Racheland, Double Nickels on the Dime, and L.A. Afterglow (all from the Idaho Review); his fiction chapbook is Animals in Distress/Pluto (Wallflower Press). 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, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, 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. James Harms lives in Morgantown, West Virginia with his family.