James GalvinJames
Galvin was born in Chicago in 1951 and raised in northern Colorado.
He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1974 and a M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa in 1977. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently
Resurrection Update:
Collected Poems 1975 – 1997, which was a finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
His honors include a “Discovery”/The
Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation award, and
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and
the National Endowment for the Arts. Galvin
is on the permanent faculty at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
He lives in Iowa City and on Boulder Ridge near the Colorado/Wyoming
border.
Selected Bibliography:
Poetry
Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975 – 1997 (1997)
Lethal Frequencies (1995)
Elements
(1988)
God’s
Mistress (1984)
Imaginary
Timber (1980)
Fiction
Fencing
the Sky (1999)
Non-Fiction
The
Meadow (1992)