![]() ![]() Galvin lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he has worked as a rancher part of each year all his life, and in Iowa City, where he is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. His honors include a "Discovery"/ The Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Galvin is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow (1992) and a novel, Fencing the Sky (Henry Holt, 1999). He has published several collections of poetry, including As Is (Copper Canyon, 2009) X: Poems (2003) Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997 (1997), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Lethal Frequencies (1995) Elements (1988) God's Mistress (1984), which was selected for the National Poetry Series by Marvin Bell and Imaginary Timber (1980). The Meadow, lush and lyrical, elegizes a vanishing relationship between humans and the weather, characterized by the fading away of an agrarian attentiveness to the patterns and cycles of the seasons. He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1977. ![]() In 1951, James Galvin was born in Chicago and was raised in northern Colorado. ![]()
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