James Pollock is the author of Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012), current finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry, and runner-up for the Posner Poetry Book Award; and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada (The Porcupine's Quill, 2012), a current finalist for the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. His poems have been published in The Paris Review, Poetry Daily, AGNI, and other journals in the U.S. and Canada, and listed in Best Canadian Poetry 2010. His critical essays and reviews have appeared in Contemporary Poetry Review, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. He earned an Honors B.A. in English literature and creative writing from York University in Toronto, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston, where he held several fellowships in poetry. He was a John Woods Scholar in poetry at the Prague Summer Program at Charles University in Prague, and a work-study scholar in poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is an associate professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he teaches poetry in the creative writing program. He lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012)

Agni, Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, Geist, Grain, Gulf Coast, Maisonneuve Magazine, Paris Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Prism International, Riddle Fence, Southern Poetry Review, Texas Review, The Del Sol Review, The Nashwaak Review, Western Humanities Review