Jim Schley majored in Literature & Creative Writing and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College; in 1986 he earned an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College's Program for Writers. He has been co-editor of the literary quarterly New England Review, production editor for University Press of New England, editor-in-chief of Chelsea Green Publishing Company, and managing editor of Tupelo Press; in the process, he has edited nearly two hundred books. From 2006 through 2008 he was executive director of The Frost Place, a museum and poetry conference center in Franconia, N.H. Jim now does freelance editing and proofreading for a number of publishers, including Wesleyan University Press, Milkweed Editions, Archipelago, Brandeis University Press, and New Directions, and he works with individual writers.