James Galvin (born 1951) is the author of seven volumes of poetry, a memoir, and a novel.
Galvin was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1951 and was raised in Northern Colorado.
He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.
He later joined the faculty at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he continues to teach each year.
Galvin has also written a memoir, The Meadow, (Henry Holt, 1992), which recounts the hundred-year history of the ranch he owns on the Colorado–Wyoming border;[3] and the novel Fencing the Sky (Henry Holt, 1999), about the destruction of rangelands and concomitant social changes in the western United States.