Joined PRX: December 28, 2006

James Reiss's surname rhymes with "peace." His latest book is Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003). In November 2008 Rager Media, Inc. will publish his novel, Facade for a Penny Arcade. His work has appeared in such places as The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, plus anthologies, textbooks, and Web sites. His first poetry collection, The Breathers, was nominated for the National Book Award. His fourth book of poems, Ten Thousand Good Mornings, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, along with awards from the Academy of American Poets, the College English Association of Ohio, the Ohioana Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, and the Pushcart Press. He is a regular reviewer of public radio productions for The Public Radio Exchange (PRX), as well as an occasional script writer for 11 Central Ave, an NPR program with its home base at Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ). He won a 2007 Zeitfunk award from the Public Radio Exchange for his reviewing. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Editor of Miami University Press in Oxford, Ohio.