James Arthur

James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The New Republic, and The American Poetry Review. He has received The Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012 as a Lannan Literary Selection. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.