Mike JamesMike James was born in the red clay hills of South Carolina and grew up amid tobacco, cotton fields and closing textile mills. He received his BA from Winthrop University and his MA from Duquesne University. His poems have appeared in numerous magazies throughout the country in such places as Birmingham Poetry Review, 5 AM, Negative Capability, and Chiron Review. Among his ten previous poetry collections are My Favorite Houseguest (Futurecyle, 2017), Peddler�s Blues (Main Sreet Rag, 2016), and Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011 (Main Street Rag, 2012). He served as an associate editor at both The Kentucky Review and Autumn House Press, as the publisher of Yellow Pepper Press, and as the Waneta T. Blake Visiting Professor at the University of Maine, Fort Kent. After years spent in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, he now makes his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his large family and a large assortment of cats. Read More Read Less