James Ciano2025-27 Poetry Fellow

James Ciano’s debut collection of poetry, The Committee of Men, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in May of 2026. He holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California. He has received scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Community of Writers, and his recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Bennington Review, The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, and The Missouri Review. His reviews and writings on poetry have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Under editor David St. John, he is an Associate Editor of Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis (Graywolf, 2026). James is at work on a series of translations from Italian and a second collection of poems.