James King is a poet from New Hampshire, born and raised in the Granite State. He is the recipient of the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize from Dartmouth College, a finalist in the 2023 NC State Poetry Competition, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in Moon City Review, ONE ART, Passages North, The Shore and others. He currently serves as Poetry Editor for Bear Review. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is currently working on his first book-length manuscript.