James Shea received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in philosophy and English from Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Star in the Eye (Fence Books, 2008), the chapbook Air and Water Show (Convulsive Editions, 2013), and The Lost Novel (forthcoming from Fence Books in 2014). His poems have appeared in various publications, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, The Iowa Review, and The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Currently a Fulbright Scholar at HKBU, he has taught at Nebraska Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago’s Committee on Creative Writing, Columbia College Chicago’s MFA Program in Poetry, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools, where he received The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Poetry writing; modern and contemporary American poetry; poetics; early modern Japanese literature; literary translation; new media.