James Brock Profile

Ph.D. in American Literature, Indiana University
MFA in Creative Writing Poetry, Indiana University
B.A. in English, The College of Idaho

Contemporary Poetry and Drama, Creative Writing

Currently involved in playwriting with experimental, site-specific work-his current project is a collaboration with Los Angeles director and FGCU alumni Brittney Brady, British-American poet Kimberly Campanello, and Irish poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin, on a set of international productions and performance pieces.

As a teaching artist, Dr. Brock brings his practice daily into his creative writing and literature courses.

• AML 3154 Poetry of the United States
• AML 3175 Drama of the United States
• CRW 2001 Introduction to Creative Writing
• CRW 3311 Poetic Techniques
• ENG 4930 Senior Seminar
• ENL 3023 Studies in Later British Literature
• LIT 3400 Interdisciplinary Topics

Books of Poetry:

• Gods & Money (WordTech Editions, 2010)
• Pictures That Got Small (WordTech Editions, 2005)
• nearly Florida (Anhinga, 2000)
• The Sunshine Mine Disaster (U. of Idaho, 1995)

Plays

• 3, 2019
• Everyone on this Train, 2018
• The Chicken Play, co-written with Hanny Zuniga, 2016
• The Guardsman, a translation of Ferenc Molnár’s comedy, 2015
• Because Beauty Must Be Broken Daily, 2014
• The Pumpkin Grower, 2012

Selected Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry Writing
• Alex Haley Fellowship for Creative Writing
• Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
• Individual Artist Fellowship from the Idaho Commission for the Arts
• Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission
• American Academy of Poets Prize