James Harms is the author of eight books of poetry, including What to Borrow, What to Steal (Marick, 2010) and Comet Scar (Carnegie Mellon, 2011). He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation fellowship, and three Pushcart Prizes. A professor of English at West Virginia University, he also directs the low-residency MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.