James Koller

is a poet, novelist, photographer, painter, publisher, and editor.  He obtained his BA from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois in 1958, then moved to San Francisco where he became the editor of Coyote’s Journal, and the publisher of Coyote Books.  He later moved with the magazine to New Mexico and then to Maine.  He has authored twenty-seven collections of poetry and four novels, and was a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient in both 1968 and 1973.