Jim Schley

He is co-founder with Ann Aspell of Chapiteau Press, which publishes poetry chapbooks. He was executive director of The Frost Place museum and poetry center from 2006 to 2008. He has also toured extensively with theater companies including the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater, the Swiss ensemble Les Montreurs d'images, and the Flock Dance Troupe. In 2004, following the unexpected loss of a job, he wrote a "My Turn" feature for Newsweek magazine about the experience of working numerous part-time jobs at once. It appeared in the September 20th, 2004 issue. He is currently Managing Editor of Tupelo Press and teaches writing at the Community College of Vermont. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and an associate of the journalists' collective Homelands Productions. Schley was born and raised in Wisconsin, and moved to New England in the 1970s to attend Dartmouth College, where he earned his B.A. He earned his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. He now lives with his wife Becky and daughter Lillian in a house they built in an off-the-grid cooperative in central Vermont. Jim and the house were featured in an article in the New York Times, June 19, 1999.

• Name — Jim Schley • Occupation — Poet; teacher; editor; theater artist • Notable Works — As When, In Season (2008) • Education — Dartmouth College (B.A.); Warren Wilson College (M.F.A.) • Employer — Tupelo Press; Community College of Vermont • Known for — Poetry; editing; sustainable-living publishing; work with Bread and Puppet Theater • Website — http: www.jimschley.com/