James Byrne

Who is James Byrne?

James Byrne is a British poet and Editor of The Wolf magazine. He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1977 and his first book of poems Passages of Time was published in 2002 and included some of his earliest poems. A second collection, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc Publications in November 2009. For many years James has been consistently talked of as 'one of the leading poets of his generation', endorsed by The Times as one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' in April 2009. He now lives in England again after two years in New York City, where he received a Stein scholarship and an MFA from New York University. He was the Poet in Residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge from 2011-2012 and is a Lecturer at Edge Hill University where he teaches poetry.

In 2008, James won the Treci Trg poetry festival prize in Serbia. In 2009 his New and Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was published by Treci Trg in Belgrade. He is the editor of The Wolf: A Decade and is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British poets, under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009.