James Brasfield (born January 19, 1952, in Savannah, Georgia) is an American poet and translator.
[1] He graduated from Armstrong State College, and Columbia University, with an MFA.
[2] He was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine from 1993 through 1994;[3] he later returned to Ukraine to teach at the Chernivtsi Yuri Fedkovych State University in 1999.
He taught at Western Carolina University and was visiting assistant professor in the University of Memphis in 2008 through 2009.
[4] Brasfield currently teaches in the English Department at Pennsylvania State University.