Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee.

He has published in numerous magazines throughout the

country in such places as Plainsongs, Laurel Poetry Review,

Birmingham Poetry Review, and Chiron Review. His poetry

collections include: Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping

Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), First-Hand

Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows

in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog), My Favorite Houseguest

(FutureCycle), and Peddler's Blues (Main Street Rag.) He

served as an associate editor of The Kentucky Review and

currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.