James Ulmer

James Ulmer is the author of two collections of ghost stories, The Secret Life (2012) and The Fire Doll (2017). He received his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from The Writing Program at the University of Houston. He served as a Literature Panelist for The Texas Commission on the Arts and has received fellowships and awards for his writing including a Residency at The MacDowell Colony, two Cultural Arts Council of Houston Creative Artist Program Grants, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the PEN Southwest Discovery Prize, and grants from The Ohio Arts Council and The Washington State Commission for the Humanities. His poems and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, New Letters, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A collection of poems, Notes Toward a City of Rain, was published in 1996. For many years, Ulmer was Writer-in-Residence at Houston Baptist University. He is currently Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Southern Arkansas University.