Jim Daniels’ latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. Late Invocation for Magic: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming in January, also from Michigan State University Press. Other poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press, and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2025. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
