John James is the author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, New England Review, PEN Poetry Series, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, the Academy of American Poets, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. He holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia and is completing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.