James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published in 2012 by Copper Canyon Press. James previously received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, as well as a visiting fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
Fellowships
- 2018: Jay and Deborah Last Artist Fellowship