Poet, editor, essayist, and translator James Scully was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the author of more than ten volumes of poetry, including The Marches (1967), which won the Lamont Poetry Award (now the James Laughlin Award); Santiago Poems (1975), about his experience as a Guggenheim fellow in Chile during Pinochet’s coup; and Angel in Flames: Selected Poems and Translations 1967–2011 (2011). He was a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut before his death in late 2020.