A National Book Award finalist for By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), James Richardson was born in Bradenton, Florida, and raised in Oceanside, New York. His other books include Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays (Ausable Press, 2001) and During (Copper Canyon, 2016). Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms (Ausable Press, 2004) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He won the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers and is professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University.
