James Kimbrell is the author of Smote, The Gatehouse Heaven, and My Psychic and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon, and Choi Young Mi. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Whiting Award, the John and Renee Grisham Fellowship, the Florida Book Award, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, and two fellowships from the NEA. A native of Mississippi, he serves as distinguished research professor at Florida State University.