James Byrne

Poet, editor, and translator James Byrne was born in the UK. He is the author of the poetry collections Everything that is Broken Up Dances (Tupelo Press, 2015), White Coins (Arc, 2015), Blood/Sugar (Arc, 2009) and Passages of Time (flipped eye, 2003). James earned an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was awarded a Stein Fellowship. Byrne was the poet in residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University in England. He is the international editor for Arc Publications and the editor of The Wolf, which he co-founded in 2002.
James’ poems have been translated into several languages—including Arabic, Burmese, and Chinese—and he has given poetry readings across the world. He is currently co-editing Atlantic Drift: an Anthology of Poetry & Poetics, featuring poets from the US, UK, and Canada.