James Hoch

whiteman

Prior to teaching, James Hoch was dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker and shepherd.
His poems have appeared in Slate, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter,
Carolina Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review and many others. They have been nominated
many times for the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars. He received a 2002 Individual Artists Fellowship
from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is the recipient of a 2007 Literature Fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts. Miscreants will be published by WW Norton in June
2007. A Parade of Hands won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by
Silverfish Review Press. Originally from Collingswood, NJ, he resides in Mahwah, NJ, with his wife and son. He has taught at Franklin and Marshall College and Lynchburg College. Currently, he
teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey.