James Thomas Stevens

These are all common references in Stevens literary and academic career. Publications are noted by publisher following.

James Thomas Stevens, 1966, born in Niagara Falls, New York. Stevens is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. An Associate Professor in the English Department of SUNY Fredonia and the Director of American Indian Studies. He is a Brown University graduate (MFA) and author of numerous volumes of poetry. A finalist for The National Poetry Series Award in 2005, nominated for a Before Columbus/American Book Award, 2003, he was awarded a Whiting Writer's award in 2000. Nominated for Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 1996; he received the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Prize in Poetry in 1993 and the City of Santa Fe Writer's Award in 1994. He received the Creative Writing Award at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1991, and was a Witter-Bynner Foundation Poetry Grant recipient in 1993. While in college, he received the Gerald Red Elk Scholarship in 1990 and a Full Academic Scholarship at Brown University in 1991.

An international poet with professional invitations to France, Turkey, and China, Stevens spoke at the IIPF in the United Nations in 2006. He formerly taught at Haskell Indian Nations University and remains a vibrant member of the Native community as well as a leading young American Poet.

His books include:

*Bulle/Chimére, First Intensity.
*A Bridge Dead in the Water, Salt Publishing.
*The Mutual Life, Plan B Press.
*, with Caroline Sinavaiana, Subpress, Oakland.
*(dis)Orient, Palm Press.
*Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Michigan State University Press.
*Tokinish, First Intensity Press, New York, 1994.