James Kimbrell

James Kimbrell is the author of Smote, The Gatehouse Heaven, and My Psychic and the cotranslator 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[klt1] , 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 National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Mississippi, he now serves as distinguished research professor at Florida State University.
[klt1]Updated per https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/discoverythe-nation-02-prizewinners/