Jim Barnes (writer)

After retiring from Truman State, he was Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University until 2006.

He has sat on several National Endowment for the Arts committees and is Poetry Editor for the Truman State University Press and first-round judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

In 1998, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions was named a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction and also in the poetry category for Paris.

In 2007 his poem on the enigma of Weldon Kees' disappearance in The Iowa Review received the Tim McGinnis Prize.

Barnes has been the Featured Poet at the Paris Writers Workshop and at the 13th Franco-Anglais Poetry Translation Festival.