James B. Kirk

James B. Kirk III taught in the Writing Program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Atlanta Review, Snowy Egret and many others. His awards in poetry include the Daniel Morse Poetry Prize, two New Jersey State Council on the Arts Awards and a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. 

James B. Kirk II, who began this book, taught English and history at Ocean City, New Jersey, High School and became the director of the guidance department there. In 1982 he was named official historian for the city of Linwood, New Jersey, his hometown. He died in 1992.