James Nolan has taught writing and literature at universities in Florida, San Francsico, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. His Ph.D. in comparative literature is from the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz),and recently he has been writer-in-residence at Tulane and Loyola universities in his native New Orleans, where for twelve years he directed the Loyola Writing Institute at Loyola University. He has translated books by Pablo Neruda (Stones of the Sky, Copper Canyon Press) and Jaime Gil de Biedma (Longing: Selected Poems, City Lights Books), and his translations of other Spanish-language poets appear in various anthologies. In turn, his own poetry and personal essays have been widely translated and published in Spanish, and he often performs his work in collaboration with musicians. He is also the author of Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda (University of New Mexico Press), and a collection of his creative nonfiction, Fumadores en manos de un dios enfurecido, was published in Madrid by Enigma Editores.