BA, Loyola University of Chicago; MFA, Indiana University; PhD, Western Michigan University.
James D’Agostino is the author of Nude With Anything (New Issues Press), The Goldfinch Caution Tapes, winner of the 2022 Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser Press), and Build Your Castle Out of Sugar Cubes All Your Enemies Have Tongues, which won the 2025 Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize. He’s published chapbooks which won prizes from Diagram/New Michigan, CutBank Books, and Wells College Press. His poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Forklift Ohio, Conduit, Mississippi Review, TriQuarterly, Flyway, and elsewhere. He teaches at Truman State University, lives in Missouri and Iowa City, IA, with his partner, the poet and book artist Karen Carcia.