James Shea is the author of Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel  (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud  (Black Ocean), a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited  The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing programme at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council.

Top Titles

• The Lost Novel (2014)
• Last Day of My Face (2025)
• Applause for a Cloud (Sayumi Kamakura, 2025). Translated by James Shea.