james NOLAN

James Nolan is a widely published poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. Perpetual Care, a collection of his short stories, won the 2007 Jefferson Press Prize, and has recently been released by Jefferson Press. His collections of poetry are Why I Live in the Forest and What Moves Is Not the Wind, both from Wesleyan University Press. A regular contributor to Boulevard, his fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Utne Reader, The North American Review, Gastronomica, New Orleans Noir (Akashic Books), and The Washington Post, among other magazines, anthologies, and newspapers. He has translated Pablo Neruda's Stones of the Sky (Copper Canyon Press) and Longing: Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma (City Lights Books). He is the author of Poet-Chief (University of New Mexico Press), a study of the Native American poetics of Whitman and Neruda. His poetry and prose have been widely translated, and a collection of his essays, Fumadores en manos de un dios enfurecido, has come out in Spain (Madrid: Enigma Editores, 2005). He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Fulbright Fellowships to Spain, and has taught literature and creative writing at universities in San Francisco, Florida, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. Recently he was Writer-in-Residence at both Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans, where he now directs the Loyola Writing Institute. A fifth-generation native of the Crescent City, he lives in the French Quarter.